This species is recorded from the eastern Pacific off Panama (see Maluf, 1988).
Kyte, M. A. (1987). Stegophiura ponderosa (Lyman), new combination, and Amphiophura vemae and Homophiura nexila, new species (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the r/v Vema collections. Proceedings of the Biological Society in Washington, 100(2), 249-256.
Martynov, A. V. & Litvinova, N. M. (2008). Deep-water Ophiuroidea of the northern Atlantic with descriptions of three species and taxonomic remarks on certain genera and species. Marine Biology research 4: 76-111.
Maluf, L. Y. (1988). Composition and distribution of the central eastern Pacific echinoderms. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports, 2, 1– 242.
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