---
title: "Caspian Bent-toed Gecko"
description: "Tenuidactylus caspius — Reptielen. Tenuidactylus caspius, also known as the Caspian bent-toed gecko or Caspian thin-toed gecko, is a species of gecko that ranges widely from southwestern Kazakhstan, southern Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan west to southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, south to Iran and northern Afghanistan."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/caspian-bent-toed-gecko
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Caspian Bent-toed Gecko

> Tenuidactylus caspius — Reptielen. Tenuidactylus caspius, also known as the Caspian bent-toed gecko or Caspian thin-toed gecko, is a species of gecko that ranges widely from southwestern Kazakhstan, southern Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan west to southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, south to Iran and northern Afghanistan.

- Scientific name: *Tenuidactylus caspius*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptielen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1715
- Wikidata: [Q3009433](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3009433)
- iNaturalist taxon: [318765](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318765)

## Names

- en: Caspian Bent-toed Gecko
- de: Kaspischer Nacktfingergecko
- es: Gecko Encorvado del Caspio
- fr: Cyrtodactyle de la Caspienne

## Countries with the most observations

AM (979), GE (250), IR (191), AZ (137), KZ (51), RU (33), UZ (25), TJ (5), AF (4)

## Summary

Tenuidactylus caspius, also known as the Caspian bent-toed gecko or Caspian thin-toed gecko, is a species of gecko that ranges widely from southwestern Kazakhstan, southern Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan west to southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, south to Iran and northern Afghanistan.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenuidactylus_caspius

## Photo

![Caspian Bent-toed Gecko](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/caspian-bent-toed-gecko/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ярослав Еремин · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/394449972

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/caspian-bent-toed-gecko?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).