Xinjiang even-fingered gecko

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

Xinjiang even-fingered gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Alsophylax
Species:
A. przewalskii
Binomial name
Alsophylax przewalskii
Strauch, 1887

Etymology

The specific name, przewalskii, is in honor of Russian explorer and naturalist Nikolai Mikhailovitch Prjevalsky.[2]

Geographic range

A. przewalskii is found in China (Xinjiang) and western Turkestan.[3]

Habitat

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

Reproduction

A. przewalskii is oviparous.[3]

References
  1. Shi L, Wang Y, Ineich I (2019). "Alsophylax przewalskii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T178716A126053231. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178716A126053231.en. Downloaded on 14 November 2019.
  2. 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).
  3. Species Alsophylax przewalskii at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.

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 [Seventh Series] 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).


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