Widespread around the Aral Sea periphery, on the Amu Darya deltaic plain and along the river valley. Mostly absent from the Ustyurt Plateau but in S Ustyurt reported from the Shakhpakhty area, Assake-Audan depression and Sarygamysh depression, Kungirot (Qo’n’irat) district. Few records from the N Kyzylkum but fairly widespread in scrub semi-desert (including vegetated takyrs) of the C Kyzylkum. Appears unrecorded from the Sundukli Sands within Uzbekistan but documented in adjacent Turkmenistan. Also present in S (south to S Surkhandarya) and through SE and E.

Source: D.A. Showler (2018): A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Republic of Uzbekistan with a review and summary of species distribution