Starfish in military history. Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name "HMS Starfish": an A-class destroyer launched in 1894; an R-class destroyer launched in 1916; and an S-class submarine launched in 1933 and lost in 1940. In the World War II, Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during The Blitz to simulate burning British cities. Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States on 9 July 1962. Starfish Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are
Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat (), meaning "hair". "Lonchothrix" is a member of the Echimyini clade of arboreal Echimyidae rodents. The closest relative of "Lonchothrix" is "Mesomys", reflecting the fact that these taxa have once been classified in the same subfamily (Eumysopinae). These two genera share phylogenetic affinities with several taxa and clades: (i) "Echimys", "Phyllomys", "Makalata", "Pattonomys", and "Toromys" ; (ii) the bamboo rats "Dactylomys", "Olallamys", "Kannabateomys" together with "Diplomys" and "Santamartamys" ; and (iii) "Isothrix". Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat The tuft-tailed spiny tree rat ("Lonchothrix emiliae") is a spiny rat species from South America. It is known from Brazil south of the Amazon River,