A due mesi dalla fine del 2016 tiriamo le somme, con 42 nuove specie di gechi, si è rivelato un anno prolifico per la ricerca tassonomica.
Il genere Cyrtodactylus si riconferma quello più numeroso al mondo, toccando le 230 specie di cui 17 appena descritte.

Diplodactylidae:
Crenadactylus occidentalis - Doughty, Ellis & Oliver, 2016
Crenadactylus pilbarensis - Doughty, Ellis & Oliver, 2016
Crenadactylus tuberculatus - Doughty, Ellis & Oliver, 2016
Diplodactylus ameyi - Couper & Oliver, 2016
Oedura bella - Oliver & Doughty, 2016
Oedura fimbria - Oliver & Doughty, 2016
Oedura luritja - Oliver & Mcdonald, 2016
Strophurus congoo - Vanderduys, 2016

Gekkonidae:
Blaesodactylus victori - Ineich, Glaw & Vences, 2016
Cnemaspis rajakarunai - Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana & Rathnayake, 2016
Cyrtodactylus bansocensis - Luu, Nguyen, Le, Bonkowski & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus calamei - Luu, Bonkowski, Nguyen, Le, Schneider, Ngo & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus equestris - Oliver, Richards, Mumpuni & Rösler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus gunungsenyumensis - Grismer, Wood, Anuar, Davis, Cobos & Murdoch, 2016
Cyrtodactylus hidupselamanya - Grismer, Wood, Anuar, Grismer, Quah, Murdoch, Muin, Davis, Auilar, Klabacka, Cobos, Aowphol & Sites, 2016
Cyrtodactylus hinnamnoensis - Luu, Bonkowski, Nguyen, Le, Schneider, Ngo & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus hitchi - Riyanto, Kurniati & Engilis, 2016
Cyrtodactylus klakahensis - Hartmann, Mecke, Kieckbusch, Mader & Kaiser, 2016
Cyrtodactylus lenggongensis - Grismer, Wood, Anuar, Grismer, Quah, Murdoch, Muin, Davis, Auilar, Klabacka, Cobos, Aowphol & Sites, 2016
Cyrtodactylus phetchaburiensis - Pauwels, Sumontha & Bauer, 2016
Cyrtodactylus rex - Oliver, Richards, Mumpuni & Rösler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus rishivalleyensis - Agarwal, 2016
Cyrtodactylus rufford - Luu, Calame, Nguyen, Le, Bonkowski & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus sommerladi - Luu, Bonkowski, Nguyen, Le, Schneider, Ngo & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus soni - Le, Nguyen, Le & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus srilekhae - Agarwal, 2016
Cyrtodactylus varadgirii - Agarwal, Mirza, Pal, Maddock, Mishra & Bauer, 2016
Dixonius minhlei - Ziegler, Botov, Nguyen, Bauer, Brennan, Ngo & Nguyen, 2016
Gehyra girloorloo - Oliver, Bourke, Pratt, Doughty & Moritz, 2016
Gehyra rohan - Oliver, Clegg, Fisher, Richards, Taylor & Jocque, 2016
Hemidactylus alfarraji - Šmíd, Shobrak, Wilms, Joger & Carranza, 2016
Hemidactylus asirensis - Šmíd, Shobrak, Wilms, Joger & Carranza, 2016
Hemiphyllodactylus cicak - Cobos, Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar & Muin, 2016
Hemiphyllodactylus huishuiensis - Yan, Lin, Guo, Li & Zhou, 2016
Lygodactylus wojnowskii - Malonza, Granthon & Williams, 2016
Parsigecko ziaiei - Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari & Anderson, 2016
Pseudogekko isapa - Siler, Davis, Diesmos, Guinto, Whitsett & Brown, 2016
Ptychozoon bannaense - Wang, Wang & Liu, 2016

Phyllodactylidae:
Asaccus gardneri - Carranza, Simó-Riudalbas, Jayasinghe, Wilms & Els, 2016
Asaccus margaritae - Carranza, Simó-Riudalbas, Jayasinghe, Wilms & Els, 2016
Phyllodactylus pachamama - Koch, Flecks, Venegas, Bialke, Valverde & Rödder, 2016

Sphaerodactylidae:
Lepidoblepharis nukak - Calderón-Espinosa & Medina-Rangel, 2016