Hakaria simonyi (STEINDACHNER, 1899)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Sepsina (Hakaria) Simonyi STEINDACHNER 1899: 161 Parachalcides socotranus BOULENGER 1899 Scelotes simonyi — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928 Sepsina (Hakaria) Simonyi — TIEDEMANN & GRILLITSCH 1999 Hakaria simonyi — RÖSLER & WRANIK 2004
Distribution	Socotra Island; Arabia Type locality: “Hakari auf Sokotra” [now Aqari, a village in the southern plain of Socotra] (S. simonyi); Dahamis (Socotra) [P. socotranus].
Reproduction
Types	Syntypes: NMW 10608-10611 Holotype: MSNTO R2207 [Parachalcides socotranus BOULENGER 1899]
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Comment	The skink was described by F. Steindachner first, between May 5 and 15th of 1899, Boulenger's paper came out in May 18, 1899 (fide LOVERIDGE 1935). Type species: Sepsina Simonyi STEINDACHNER 1899: 161 is the type species of the genus Hakaria STEINDACHNER 1899. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Oskar Simony (1852-1915), a mathematician, physicist, and naturalist. He was Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics at an academy in Vienna. The genus was named after the type locality, Hakari on Socotra Island.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1899. Descriptions of the new species of reptiles. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum, 2:4-7 - get paper here Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1935. Synonyms of a Socotran Skink (Scelotes including Sepsina). Copeia 1935 (4): 188 - get paper here Razzetti, Edoardo; ROBERTO SINDACO, CRISTINA GRIECO, FRANCESCA PELLA, UGO ZILIANI, FABIO PUPIN, ELISA RISERVATO, DANIELE PELLITTERI-ROSA, LUCA BUTIKOFER, AHMED SAEED SULEIMAN, BADAR AWADH AL-ASEILY, CATERINA CARUGATI, ELEONORA BONCOMPAGNI & MAURO FAS 2011. Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia). Zootaxa 2826: 1–44 - get paper here Steindachner,F. 1899. Ueber eine von Herrn Prof. O. Simony während der südarabischen Expedition in Sokotra entdeckte neue Sepsina-Art. Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-naturwiss. Kl., 36: 161-162 - get paper here Tiedemann,F. & Grillitsch,H. 1999. Ergänzungen zu den Katalogen der Typusexemplare der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. [type catalogue] Herpetozoa 12 (3-4): 147-156 - get paper here Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here Wranik, Wolfgang 1998. Contributions to the herpetology of the Republic of Yemen. 4. Socotra Island and southern Yemen mainland (Amphibia; Reptilia). FAUNISTISCHE ABHANDLUNGEN (DRESDEN) 21(Supplement), 1998: 163-179 Wranik, Wolfgang 2003. Fauna of the Socotra Archipelago: Field Guide. University of Rostock, 542 pp. [review in Der Salamander 2 (4): 255]
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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