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Plate 9.— Classification: system Estuarine, subsystem Intertidal, CLASS Rocky Shore and Aquatic Bed, subclass Rubble and 

 Algal, water regime Regularly Flooded and Irregularly Flooded, WATER chemistry Euhaline, special modifier Artificial. 

 The dominant organisms shown are rockweed {Fucus spp.) and acorn barnacle {Balanus spp.). (Washington County, Rhode 

 Island; July 1977) 



