Haackgreerius

Haackgreerius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Haackgreerius; Greer & Haacke, 1982
Species:	H. miopus
Binomial name
	Haackgreerius miopus; (Greer & Haacke), 1982
Synonyms
	Lygosoma miopus;

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.^[1]

The genus Haackgreerius is endemic to coastal Somalia.^[2]

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

^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (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).
^ "Haackgreerius miopus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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).