Alsophylax przewalskii STRAUCH, 1887

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Xinjiang Even-fingered Gecko Chinese: 新疆漠虎
Synonym	Alsophylax przewalskii STRAUCH 1887: 55 Gymnodactylus microtis BLANFORD 1875 Alsophylax przewalskii — ZUGMAYER 1909: 493 Alsophylax przewalskii — WERMUTH 1965: 6 Alsophylax przewalskii — KLUGE 1993 Alsophylax (Alsophylax) przewalskii — RÖSLER 2000: 59 Alsophylax przewalskii — BAUER et al. 2013
Distribution	China (Xinjiang), W Turkestan Type locality: “unterer Tarim-Fluss, Zentral-Asien” (fide WERMUTH 1965).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: ZISP (also as ZIL) 5144, adult male (fide SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1996); Syntype: USNM 69894 Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.20.45 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment
Etymology	Named after General Nikolai Mikhailovitch Przewalski (1839-1888), a Russian Cossack naturalist who explored Central Asia (Beolens et al. 2009).
References	BAUER, AARON M.; RAFAQAT MASROOR, JAMES TITUS-MCQUILLAN, MATTHEW P. HEINICKE,, JUAN D. DAZA & TODD R. JACKMAN 2013. A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa 3599 (4): 301–324 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2009. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 592 pp. - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Blanford, WILLIAM T. 1875. List of Reptilia and Amphibia collected by the late Dr. Stoliczka in Kashmir, Ladák, eastern Turkestán, and Wakhán, with descriptions of new species. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, new ser., 44 (pt. 2, no. 3): 191-196. - get paper here Nazarov, R.A.; Abduraupov, T.V.; Shepelya, E.Y.; Gritsina, M.A.; Melnikov, D.A.; Buehler, M.D.; Lapin, J.D.; Poyarkov, N.A.; Grismer, J.L. 2023. The Fergana Valley Is an Isolate of Biodiversity: A Discussion of the Endemic Herpetofauna and Description of Two New Species of Alsophylax (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Eastern Uzbekistan. Animals 13: 2516 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Strauch, A. A. 1887. Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Mém. Acad. Impér. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, ser. 7, 35 (2): 1-72 - get paper here Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Wu, Jianguo 2015. Can changes in the distribution of lizard species over the past 50 years be attributed to climate change? Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI<br>10.1007/s00704-015-1553-4 - get paper here Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522 Zugmayer,Erich 1909. Beiträge zur Herpetologie von Zentral-Asien. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. 27: 481-508 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.zsu.edu.cn/museum/creature/animal/Reptilia.htm Google images

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