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
Spiny-flanked chameleon gives birth to live young. "Trioceros laterispinis" was first described in 1932 by British herpetologist and biologist Arthur Loveridge as "Chamaeleon laterispinis". It was described under the same name in 1966 by Daan and Hillenius. In 1982, Böhme described it as the "Chamaeleo laterispinis brookesiaeformis", and in 1999, Necas described it as the "Chamaeleo laterispinis". Tilbury and Tolley described it as "Trioceros laterispinis" in 2009. It is commonly also known as the spiny-flanked chameleon. Spiny-flanked chameleon The spiny-flanked chameleon (also known as the spiny-sided chameleon), Trioceros laterispinis, is a species of chameleon endemic to the United Republic of Tanzania, East