Widespread in lowland desert/semi-desert, but absent from E. In Karakalpakstan recorded from the S Ustyurt in the Shakhpakhty area, Assake-Audan depression and Sarygamysh depression, and the southern Aral Sea coast and Amu Darya deltaic plain. There appear to be no records from the N Kyzylkum, but fairly widespread in the C-S of the desert in Bukhara province. Appears unrecorded from the Sundukli Sands of Uzbekistan but documented in adjacent Turkmenistan. Mapped in SE at two localities along the Zerafshan Darya near Bukhara city (Bukhara province), and in S at a few locations in Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya provinces.

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