Kaspischer Even-fingered Gecko

The Caspian even-fingered gecko is just under 9 centimetres long in total, the second smallest lizard of Europe after the European leaf-toed gecko. It differs from the other European geckos in its straight, unbroadened toes. The head and body are slightly flattened, the head relatively large and the body slender. The colour above is pale yellowish or brown, sometimes grey-brown, with five broad, washed-out cross bands that may be broken into rows of spots. The underside is whitish, often with a lemon-yellow tinge. (German Wikipedia, general species account)

Its range runs from the Russian Astrakhan region through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and northern Turkmenistan to Kyrgyzstan, southern Mongolia and northwest China. The only European occurrence is Mount Bogdo on the lower left Volga. It is found mainly in crevices and fissures at the foot of limestone or clay slopes, but also in stony wormwood steppe, and up to a maximum of 1,500 metres in the rocky part of the Gobi Desert. (German Wikipedia, general species account)