Macrozoobenthos as bioindicator of ecological status in Tanjung Pasir Coastal, Tangerang District, Banten Province, Indonesia

ASEP SAHIDIN (Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Padjadjaran. Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang Km. 21, Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, West Java, Indonesia - Aquatic Resource Laboratory, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Univ)
ZAHIDAH ZAHIDAH (Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Padjadjaran. Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang Km. 21, Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, West Java, Indonesia)
HETI HERAWATI (Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Padjadjaran. Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang Km. 21, Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, West Java, Indonesia)
YUSLI WARDIATNO (Department of Aquatic Resource Management, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Institut Pertanian Bogor. Darmaga Bogor 16680, West Java, Indonesia)
ISDRADJAD SETYOBUDIANDI (Department of Aquatic Resource Management, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Institut Pertanian Bogor. Darmaga Bogor 16680, West Java, Indonesia)
RUHYAT PARTASASMITA (Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran. Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang Km. 21, Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, West Java, Indonesia.)

Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity
Vol. 19 No. 3 (2018)

Sahidin A, Zahidah, Herawati H, Wardiatno Y, Setyobudiandi I, Partasasmita R. 2018. Macrozoobenthos as bioindicator of ecological status in Tanjung Pasir Coastal, Tangerang District, Banten Province, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 19: 1123-1129. The existence of macrozoobenthos organism allow for bioindicator of ecological status and detected water pollution in coastal environment with observing the response, diversity, and abundance. The one of biological method for water quality analysis is AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI). This research aims to determine water quality status in Tanjung Pasir water coastal Tangerang, Banten. The research was conducted in April - August 2014 in Tanjung Pasir Coastal, Tanggerang, Banten with purposive sampling method and be forwarded with water pollution analysis with AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI) model. The research showed 4.552 individual of macrozoobenthos found divided into 52 species with the average of diversity amount 634 ind./m2 with dominated by bivalve species Nuculana bicuspidate  22.89%, it is a bivalve an extreme species that can live in waters with very low oxygen concentrations and hight pollution. The result of AMBI (4.01 to 5.02) indicates water pollution in Tanjung Pasir Coastal classified in medium-heavy pollution and concentred in coastal zone. Polychaeta is a key bioindicator in the determination of water pollution and ecological status in Tanjung Pasir coastal.