One can replace in Costa’s surface the planar end by an Enneper end, keeping the symmetries of the Costa surface and the Enneper surface.

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Of course one loses embeddedness, but gains a parameter. In one limit, the catenoidal necks pinch off and one obtains the Chen-Gackstatter surface, in the other limit, the Enneper end becomes planar, and one has the Costa surface.

I don’t know whether these surfaces have been described in the literature.

Resources

Mathematica notebook and CDF

PoVRay sources

 

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