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The example of speciation via vicariance given in Figure 22.7 focuses on the impact of the formation of the isthmus of Panama on the populations of snapping shrimp living in the shallow waters of the West Caribbean and East Pacific. Would you expect to see a similar pattern of Pacific/Caribbean sister species in other shallow-water organisms?
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