Table 1: Concentrations (µg/g dry weight) of Cd, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn of Acetes sp. from the present study and cited data from the literature.

DW WW
Sampling site Ni Cu Zn Cd Pb Fe Ni Cu Zn Cd Pb Fe
Klebang 3.70 7.10 27.1 1.47 4.49 41.5 1.11 2.13 8.12 0.44 1.35 12.5
Klebang (cincalok) 4.19 8.55 11.0 1.79 4.86 21.2 1.26 2.57 3.31 0.54 1.46 6.35
Malacca (min)1 NA NA 40.7 0.07 0.17 NA NA NA 12.2 0.02 0.05 NA
Malacca (max)1 NA NA 45.8 0.85 1.29 NA NA NA 13.7 0.26 0.39 NA
Kedah (min)1 NA NA 34.3 0.02 0.25 NA NA NA 10.3 0.01 0.08 NA
Kedah (max)1 NA NA 15.1 0.21 0.55 NA NA NA 4.53 0.06 0.17 NA
Miri coast2 8.00 32.4 62.4 1.20 7.20 NA 2.40 9.72 18.7 0.36 2.16 NA
Malacca3 NA 40.3 30.6 0.04 0.07 NA NA 12.1 9.18 0.01 0.02 NA
Terengganu3 NA 56.1 46.3 0.55 0.28 NA NA 16.8 13.9 0.17 0.08 NA

Note: The µg/g dry weights were converted by using conversion factors of 0.30, assuming the water content is 70%.

1Rahouma, et al. [1] for Malacca and Kedah; 2Anandkumar, et al. [3]; 3Rahouma, et al. [2] for Malacca and Terengganu.