In a salt marsh,a fish eats decaying material from around the base of Spartina grass plants.A snail scrapes algae from the stalks of the Spartina grass.These species can coexist in the same area because they have:

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The fish and the snail inhabit the same habitat, which is the salt marsh, but they occupy different niches. The fish eats decaying material around the base of the Spartina grass plants, while the snail scrapes algae from the stalks of the same plant. They're not competing for the same resources, and they're not directly harming each other, so they can coexist in the same area. Therefore, the best choice is C: the same habitat but different niche.

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