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Xinjiang even-fingered gecko
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Alsophylax
Species: A. przewalskii
Binomial name
Alsophylax przewalskii
Strauch, 1887

The Xinjiang even-fingered gecko or Przewalski's pygmy gecko (Alsophylax przewalskii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, przewalskii, is in honor of Russian explorer and naturalist Nikolai Mikhailovitch Prjevalsky.

Geographic range

According to IUCN, A. przewalskii is endemic to western China (Xinjiang and Gansu provinces).The Reptile Database also mentions western Turkestan, overlapping with multiple modern-day jurisdictions.

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. przewalskii is desert at altitudes of 500–1,400 m (1,600–4,600 ft).

Reproduction

A. przewalskii is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Shi, L.; Wang, Y.; Ineich, I. (2019). "Alsophylax przewalskii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T178716A126053231. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T178716A126053231.en. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  2. ^ Alsophylax przewalskii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 23 August 2021.
  3. 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. (Alsophylax przewalskii, p. 212).

Further reading

  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Alsophylax przewalskii, p. 59). (in German).
  • Strauch A (1887). "Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg ". Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, Septième Série 35 (2): 1-72 + ii (index) + one unnumbered plate. (Alsophylax przewalskii, new species, pp. 55–57). (in German).
  • Zhao E, Adler K (1993). Herpetology of China. Oxford, Ohio: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). 522 pp. ISBN 0-916984-28-1. (Alsophylax przewalskii, pp. 178, 303 + color photograph on p. 21).
Taxon identifiers
Alsophylax przewalskii


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