Haackgreerius

Haackgreerius is a genus of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The genus Haackgreerius is endemic to coastal Somalia and contains one species.

Etymology

The generic name, Haackgreerius, is in honor of South African herpetologist Wulf Dietrich Haacke and Australian herpetologist Allen E. Greer.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Haackgreerius miopus, pp. 107-108, 113).</ref>

Geographic range

The genus Haackgreerius is endemic to coastal Somalia.<ref name=RDB>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

Species

The genus Haackgreerius is monotypic, containing a single species, Haackgreerius miopus.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of H. miopus is shrubland.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

Description

The eye of H. miopus is vestigial and is covered by an undifferentiated ocular scale. The front legs are absent, but hind legs are present. Each hind foot has only two toes.<ref name=RDB/>

Reproduction

The mode of reproduction of H. miopus is unknown.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" /><ref name=RDB/>

Further reading

• Greer AE, Haacke WD (1982). "A new and unusual species of Lygosoma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from the Horn of Africa". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 33 (10): 153–164. (Lygosoma miopus, new species).
• Lanza B (1983). "A List of the Somali Amphibians and Reptiles". Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento 18 (1): 193–247. (Haackgreerius, new genus, p. 210; H. miopus, new combination, p. 210). (in English, with an abstract in Italian).
• Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia 14: 407–465. (Genus Haackgreerius, p. 423; species H. miopus, p. 423).

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