Species that contain: Hetereleotris and arenarius [ 1 ] records

arenarius, Hetereleotris Snyder [J. O.] 1908:100 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 35 (no. 1635); ref. 4150] Naha, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Holotype: USNM 62237. Paratypes: CAS-SU 21104 (1); USNM 74581-82 (1, 1). Type catalog: Koumans 1940:127, 144 [ref. 2676], Böhlke 1953:106 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Gobiopsis arenaria (Snyder 1908) -- (Akihito in Masuda et al. 1984:267 [ref. 6441], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:638 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1249 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2000:183 [ref. 25987], Hutchins 2001:43 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1249 [ref. 26193], Hoese & Larson 2006:1658 [ref. 29097], Shibukawa 2010:97 [ref. 30809], Motomura et al. 2010:214 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:976 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:167 [ref. 33932], Parenti 2021:173 [ref. 38603], Koreeda et al. 2022:29 [ref. 39102]). Current status: Valid as Gobiopsis arenaria (Snyder 1908). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Brunei and southern China north to southern Japan; northern Australia and New Guinea. Habitat: marine.