heterurus, Pterois Bleeker [P.] 1856:33 [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 1; ref. 311] Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 5872. The species epithet heterurus is an adjective (different tailed), combined with a feminine genus the epithet should be heterura. •Valid as Parabrachirus heterurus (Bleeker 1856) -- (Eschmeyer & Rama-Rao 1978:66 [ref. 6386]). •Valid as Parapterois heterurus (Bleeker 1856) -- (Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:316 [ref. 6441], Eschmeyer 1986:466 [ref. 5652], Chen et al. 1997:168 [ref. 26476], Motomura & Iwatsuki 1997:128 [ref. 23963], Poss 1999:2326 [ref. 24796], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:605 [ref. 25122], Mandrytsa 2001:276 [ref. 25636], Choi et al. 2003:242, 559 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:29 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S102 [ref. 27377], Motomura 2004:1 [ref. 27693], Shinohara et al. 2005:424 [ref. 28370], Yoshida et al. 2013:78 [ref. 34464], Luo et al. 2024:9 [ref. 41630]). •Valid as Parapterois heterura (Bleeker 1856) -- (Nakabo 2000:567 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:567 [ref. 26001], Allen & Erdmann 2012:219 [ref. 31980], Matsunuma et al. 2013:50 [ref. 33131], Fricke et al. 2018:131 [ref. 35805], Psomadakis et al. 2020:359 [ref. 37272], Matsunuma & Motomura 2021:[6] [ref. 38848], Poss & Motomura 2022:513 [ref. 39725], Allen & Erdmann 2024:237 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Parapterois heterura (Bleeker 1856). Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea east to eastern Indonesia and Philippines, north to central Japan, south to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.