In Panama this species is recorded from the Panamanian Exclusive Economic Zone, Caribbean Sea (see Pawson et al. 2001).
Deichmann, E. (1940). Report on the holothurians, collected by the Harvard-Havana expeditions1938and 1939, with a revision of the Molpadonia of the Atlantic Ocean. Mem. Soc. cubana Hist. nat. 14: pp. 183-240.
Pawson, D.L.; Vance, D.J.; Ahearn, C. (2001). Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the Order Molpadiida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10: 311-327.
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