Starfish to starfish by the French zoologist de Blainville in 1830. It is derived from the Greek "aster", ἀστήρ (a star) and the Greek "eidos", εἶδος (form, likeness, appearance). The class Asteroidea belongs to the phylum Echinodermata. As well as the starfish, the echinoderms include sea urchins, sand dollars, brittle and basket stars, sea cucumbers and crinoids. The larvae of echinoderms have bilateral symmetry, but during metamorphosis this is replaced with radial symmetry, typically pentameric. Adult echinoderms are characterized by having a water vascular system with external tube feet and a calcareous endoskeleton consisting of ossicles connected by a mesh of
HMS Starfish (1916) "Starfish" had transferred to the Gunnery School at the Nore, and in March was supporting the torpedo school at the Nore, while by November she had transferred to the Nore Local Defence Flotilla. On 21 April 1928, "Starfish" was sold for scrap to Alloa of Charlestown. HMS Starfish (1916) HMS "Starfish" was an destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 27 September 1916 and sold to be broken up on 21 April 1928. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie of Hebburn Tyne. "Starfish" was one of ten destroyers ordered by the British Admiralty in December 1915