Xinjiang even-fingered gecko

Xinjiang even-fingered gecko
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Alsophylax
Species:	A. przewalskii
Binomial name
	Alsophylax przewalskii; Strauch, 1887

Last updated December 18, 2025

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.^[1]

Etymology

The specific name, przewalskii, is in honor of Russian explorer and naturalist Nikolai Mikhailovitch Prjevalsky.^[2]^[3]

Geographic range

According to IUCN, A. przewalskii is endemic to western China (Xinjiang and Gansu provinces).^[1]The Reptile Database also mentions western Turkestan,^[2] 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).^[1]

Reproduction

A. przewalskii is oviparous.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 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.
1 2 3 Alsophylax przewalskii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 23 August 2021.
↑ 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).

Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota2: 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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[IUCN-1] 1 2 3 4 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.

[RDB-2] 1 2 3 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).

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