Oreaster Muller & Troschel 1842

Genus Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842 Type species. Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by original designation by Döderlein, 1916). Remarks. The genus Oreaster is composed of only two species: O. clavatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 (East Atlantic) and O. reticulatus (West Atlantic). The molecular data published by Janies et al. (2019) indicated that there was a new species of Oreaster from the Gulf of Mexico. However, Collins et al. (2020) concluded that the specimens analyzed by Janies et al. (2019) are more closely related to Valvaster striatus (Lamarck, 1816), a species considered endemic to the Indo-Pacific.
Published as part of Cunha, Rosana, Martins, Luciana, Menegola, Carla & Souto, Camilla, 2021, Taxonomy of the sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Bahia State, including ontogenetic variation and an illustrated key to the Brazilian species, pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4955 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4955.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4691078
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