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Figure 5.23 Biogeographic analysis of the Hawaiian islands by Humphries and Ebach
(2004). (a) Map of the islands; (b) general area cladogram obtained with 3item and TASS/
NONA; (c) general area cladogram obtained with TASS/NONA treating Maui as a single
area; (d) general area cladogram obtained with 3item treating Maui as a single area; (e)
general area cladogram including a time slice.
Liebherr (1997) wrote that although many Hawaiian biogeographic patterns
are due to overwater dispersal, the subsidence of the Maui Nui Island affords the
search for vicariance patterns among the resulting islands of Moloka'i, Lana'i, and
Maui. Furthermore, there is geological evidence of former islands that existed in
the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands since the Late Paleocene (Craw et al. 1999).
 
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