Ptereleotris heteroptera (Bleeker 1855)
Chinese common name: 尾斑鳍塘鳢
Distribution in China: South China Sea (Xisha Islands); Taiwan.
国内分布:南海(西沙群岛),台湾省。
Distribution abroad: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Marquesas Islands and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga.

Live specimen collected in Indonesia. SL: 70 mm.