Tiny Tan Starfish 1"- 1.38" Set of 50 Pentastar Obtusatus are beautiful and flat common starfish or sea star found in the Philippines. It has a distinctive orange color with white highlights. We love them grouped together in a Hurricane or Decorative bowl anywhere you want to make a statement.
*This is fragile fossil from the ocean and each will have imperfections and its own characteristics and vary slightly from the photos, making them unique gorgeous displays.
DIMENSIONS: .5"- 1” approximate
ORIGIN: Phillipines
HISTORY & FACTS: Starfish are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. Starfish are also known as asteroids due to being in the class Asteroidea. About 1,900 species of starfish occur on the seabed in all the world's oceans, from warm, tropical zones to frigid, polar regions. They are found from the intertidal zone down to abyssal depths, at 6,000 m (20,000 ft) below the surface.