Haackgreerius

Haackgreerius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Lygosominae
Genus:	Haackgreerius Lanza, 1983^[1]

Haackgreerius is a genus of skinks.

Etymology

The generic name, Haackgreerius, is in honor of South African herpetologist Wulf Dietrich Haacke and Australian herpetologist Allen E. Greer.^[2]

Geographic range

The genus Haackgreerius is endemic to Somalia.^[1]

Species

The genus Haackgreerius is monotypic, containing a single species.

Haackgreerius miopus (Greer & Haacke, 1982)^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Haackgreerius miopus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Haackgreerius miopus, pp. 107-108, 113).

Further reading

Greer AE, Haacke WD. 1982. A new and unusual species of Lygosoma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from the Horn of Africa. Ann. Transvaal Mus. 33 (10): 153-164. (Lygosoma miopus, new species).
Lanza B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. Monitore zoologico italiano, supplement 18 (8): 193-247. (Haackgreerius, new genus, p. 210).

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