was not sure of the relationship between
Aetinopyga and Bohad,ehia since he did not
consider the presence or absence of anal papillae
to be of great importance, but he concluded that
there could be no relationship between
Actinopyga and Microthele, the possession of
anal papillae in both being the result of
convergence.
Oeichmann (1958) felt that the name
Hoiolhuria Linnaeus (i.e. sensu 1758) should be
discarded and the species previously included in
it divided into a number of genera. She proposed
13 generic names, of which II were new to
science. According to Rowe (1969), by erecting
new genera she disregarded a number of
appropriatc prior genus group-names of Brandt
(1835), Jaeger (1833), Haacke (1880) and
Pearson (1914) on the grounds of poor
defrn ltion; most of these names are available
under·the rules, being associated with recognised
species, those of Jaeger and Brandt needing only
designation of type-species in order to qualify
for recognition under the rules. Deichmann
(1958) stated that there was nothing new about
her classification, since this type of arrangement
of the species on the basis of ecological
divisions has been foreshadowed in the key of
Fisher (1907) for the Hawaiian holothurians. She
based her classification mainly on ecological
division. She was of the view that within each
habitat are groups in different stages of
development, which can be separated by means
of their spicules. She was also of the view that
the most primitive ones are those with regular
tables and roselles. This is exactly opposite to
the view of Pearson. She based her revision
predominantly on the species from the East
Pacific and left unconsidered a number of others
from different parts of the world, so that her
revision was necessarily incomplete.
Rowe (1969) reviewed the Family
Holothuriidae and proposed a new classification