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Despite this being one of my older pieces, I have apparently never posted this on dA before (or maybe I did and accidentally removed it. I can't quite remember). Whatever happened, I can't find it in my gallery. Anyway, this is a New England Saltmarsh.
The organisms featured here are:

Salt-marsh Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora)—the dominant plant in the marsh

Ribbed Mussel (Geukensia demissa)

Fiddler Crab (Uca sp.-- several different fiddler species inhabit the saltmarsh)

Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio)

Sand Shrimp (Crangon septemspinosa)

Silverside (Menidia menidia)

Striped Killifish (Fundulus majalis)

Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus)

Mud Snails (Ilyanassa obsoleta)

Rough Periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris)

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Description
Despite this being one of my older pieces, I have apparently never posted this on dA before (or maybe I did and accidentally removed it. I can't quite remember). Whatever happened, I can't find it in my gallery. Anyway, this is a New England Saltmarsh.
The organisms featured here are:

Salt-marsh Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora)—the dominant plant in the marsh

Ribbed Mussel (Geukensia demissa)

Fiddler Crab (Uca sp.-- several different fiddler species inhabit the saltmarsh)

Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio)

Sand Shrimp (Crangon septemspinosa)

Silverside (Menidia menidia)

Striped Killifish (Fundulus majalis)

Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus)

Mud Snails (Ilyanassa obsoleta)

Rough Periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris)

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)