In Panama this species was collected off the Gulf of Mosquitos (USNM E 46269; Centroid Latitude:9.08 Centroid Longitude: -81.30), Caribbean Sea, by the R. V. Oregon II from a depth of 594 m.
Lyman, T. (1883). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Carribbean Sea (1878-79), and on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. coast survey steamer “Blake”, commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XX.- Report on the Ophiuroidea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, 10(6), 227-287.
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