Appearance
"Orestar clavatus" is tan with dark brown specks and has 5 arms with dark brown knobs running from the center of the star to the tip of each arm, with small orange dots on each knob.Evolution
"Oreaster clavatus" was found by Franz Hermann Troschel and Johannes Peter Müller in 1842. The oldest known preserved specimen of "O. Clavatus" was found near Gabon in 1885 and was in the National Museum of Natural History in France.References:
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