This species has been collected off Panama near the mouth of Rio Ensenarica (USNM E16250), and from South of Chepillo Island (USNM E16251), Bay of Panama, eastern Pacific, by the R. V. Virgen de Carmen.
Luidia brevispina Lutken, 1871 (Synonym according to A. M. Clark (1953))
Luidia marginata Koehler, 1911 (Synonym according to Jangoux (1985))
Petalaster columbia Gray, 1840
