Records of this species off the Caribbean coast of Panama are unconfirmed. However, reliable records (see Hendler et al, 1995) show the distribution of this species straddles Panama having been collected from the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, making its occurrence in Panama plausible.
Selenka, E. (1867). Beitrage zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien. Der Philosophischen Facultat zu Gottingen in December 1866, als Dissertation vorgelegt.: pp. 291-374.
Deichmann, E. (1930). The Holothurians of the Western Part of the Atlantic Ocean. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 71: pp. 43-236.
Hendler, Gordon, John E. Miller, David L. Pawson, and Porter M. Kier. (1995). Sea Stars, Sea Urchins, and Allies - Echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean. Washington D. C. 390pp.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
World Register of Marine Species
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