Owing to its high number of endemic flora and fauna, the Socotran Archipelago has been dubbed "the Gal á pagos of the Indian Ocean". Indeed, the sheer number of life forms unique to the archipelago's four main islands —Socotra, Darsah, Samhah, and Abd al Kuri—puts it in a notable fifth after New Zealand, Hawaii , New Caledonia , and the Galápagos themselves for remote island chains with the highest rates of endemism. While the bulk of these endemics are insects and plants, i