In Panama this species has been collected from Punta Paitilla (USNM E 23199 & USNM E 23223; Centroid Latitude: 8.97, Centroid Longitude: -79.52), Taboga Island (USNM E 4949), Culebra Beach (USNM E 41602), Pericio Island (USNM E 23497), Venado Island (USNM E 23275; Centroid Latitude: 8.8792, Centroid Longitude: -79.59583) and Chepillo Island (USNM E 28387), Panama Bay, Gulf of Panama, eastern Pacific.
Lyman, T. (1860). Descriptions of new Ophiuridae, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution and to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 1859-61, 7, 252-262.
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