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TAXONOMIC BACKGROUND Carpenter (1856), Fisher (1886) and Dall (1898,1916) introduced a series of genus-level names for American lithophagines and these names are in current use (see Turner and Boss, 1962, Soot-Ryen, 1955, 1969, Olsson, 1961). Iredale (1939) reviewed the taxa and their diagnostic characters but ignored the possibility that some of them might also be represented in the Indo-West Pacific region-and proposed a new series of sectional names for lithophagines from Queensland.