title: Altiphylax stoliczkai
text: # Altiphylax stoliczkai
  
  Altiphylax stoliczkai, also known commonly as the frontier bow-fingered gecko, the Baltistan gecko, and the Karakorum gecko is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to South Asia.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The specific name, stoliczkai, is in honor of Moravian zoologist Ferdinand Stoliczka.
  
  ## Geographic range
  
  A. stoliczkai is found in India (Kashmir, Karoo/Dras, Ladakh) and western China.
  
  The type locality given by Steindachner is "bei Karoo, nördlich von Dras, Kashmir ".
  
  ## Habitat
  
  The preferred natural habitats of A. stoliczkai are desert, grassland, and rocky areas, at altitudes of 2,300–3,700 m (7,500–12,100 ft).
  
  ## Reproduction
  
  A. stoliczkai is oviparous.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  Most authorities, most recently Bauer et al. 2013, now consider Böhme's mountain gecko to be a subspecies of this species (A. s. boehmei).
  
  