Altiphylax

Bauer, Aaron M., Masroor, Rafaqat, Titus-Mcquillan, James, Heinicke, Matthew P., Daza, Juan D. & Jackman, Todd R., 2013, A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications, Zootaxa 3599 (4), pp. 301-324 : 317

Altiphylax (5 species)

Composition: A. baturensis (Khan & Baig) , A. levitoni (Golubev & Szczerbak) , A. mintoni (Golubev & Szczerbak) , A. stoliczkai (Steindachner) , A. tokobajevi (Yeriomtschenko & Szczerbak) , A. yarkandensis (Anderson)

Distribution: Kyrgyzstan, Kashmir ( India), northeastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan

Comments: We follow Auffenberg et al. (2004) in synonymizing Altiphylax boehmei with A. stoliczkai . The specific distinctness of A. yarkandensis remains uncertain (Khan 1994; Auffenberg et al. 2004). We follow Das et al. (1998) and Auffenberg et al. (2004) in regarding the origin of the types of this species as Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir rather than Yarkand, Xinijang, China. We accept Sindaco & Jeremčenko’s (2008) proposed movement of A. levitoni , the type species of Asiocolotes , to Altiphylax and the transfer of Asiocolotes depressus to Microgecko . We retain, however, Khan’s (2009) allocation of walli , assigned to Altiphylax by Sindaco & Jeremčenko (2008), to Mediodactylus .