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
Phylum for Chromista and Protozoa by the Catalogue of Life, adapted from the system used by the International Society of Protistologists. The Catalogue of Life includes Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta in kingdom Plantae, but other systems consider these phyla part of Protista. Currently there are 29 phyla accepted by List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) Currently there are 5 phyla accepted by List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Phylum In biology, a phylum (; plural: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below Kingdom and above Class. Traditionally, in botany the term division has