Tenuidactylus caspius

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Tenuidactylus caspius
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Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Tenuidactylus
Species:
T. caspius
Binomial name
Tenuidactylus caspius
(Eichwald, 1831)
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Synonyms
  • Gymnodactylus caspius
  • Cyrtodactylus caspius
  • Cyrtopodion caspius
  • Cyrtopodion caspium

Tenuidactylus caspius, also known as the Caspian bent-toed gecko or Caspian thin-toed gecko, is a species of gecko that ranges widely from southwestern Kazakhstan, southern Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan west to southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, south to Iran and northern Afghanistan. [2]

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References

  1. Tuniyev, B.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Aghasyan, A.; Orlov, N.L.; Tuniyev, S.; Anderson, S.; Chirikova, M.; Nazarov, R.; Doronin, I. (2017). "Tenuidactylus caspius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T157255A49210899. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T157255A49210899.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Tenuidactylus caspius at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 22 March 2018.