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Fine scale endemism on coral reefs: archipelagic differentiation in turbinid gastropods.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2005
Meyer Christopher P, Geller Jonathan B, Paulay Gustav
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The perceived wide geographic range of organisms in the sea, facilitated by ready dispersal of waterborne dispersal stages, is a challenge for hypotheses of marine speciation but a boon to efforts of marine conservation. Wide species ranges are especially striking in the reef-rich Indo-west Pacific, the largest and most diverse marine biogeographic region, extending across half the planet. The insular marine...
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