In 1984, Thomas Gloerfelt-Tarp and Patricia Kailola published a guide to “Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwestern Australia”, which provided a great insight to the diversity of shelf and upper slope species occurring in the area. Subsequent studies have revealed that the authors did not always correctly identify the species treated. An ongoing study of Indo-West Pacific species of the genus Lepidotrigla – by far the most speciose genus of the family Triglidae – has determined that none of the six species given available names was correctly identified, although the four regarded as not having names were at that time indeed likely to have been undescribed. A review of the ten species, their distributions and their relationships to others in the genus is discussed.