Maluf (1988) and Lessios (2005) report that this species has a distribution range that straddles Panama (Mexico to Ecuador), and has a depth range of 2875 to 3436 m. However, Alverado et al. (2010) list this species as recorded from off the eastern Pacific coast of Panama.
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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.
Lessios, H. A. (2005). Echinoids of the Pacific Waters of Panama: Status of knowledge and new records. Rev. Biol. Tropical 53 (sup. 3):147-170.
Alvarado, J. J., Solís-Marín, F. A. &. Ahearn, C. G. (2010). Echinoderm (Echinodermata) diversity in the Pacific coast of Central America. Marine Biodiversity 40: 45-56.
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513214Echinocrepis setigera A. Agassiz, 1898 (transferred to Cystocrepis)
