Editing Ed Ricketts (section)

==Eponymous species==
Since 1930, over 16 species have been named after Ricketts:<ref>Tamm 2005, p.243</ref>

*''Aclesia rickettsi'' ([[Sea slug]])
*''Catriona rickettsi'' (Sea slug)
*''Hypsoblenniops rickettsi'' ([[Blenny]])
*''Longiprostatum rickettsi'' ([[Flatworm]])
*''Mysidium rickettsi'' ([[Opossum shrimp]])
*''Siphonides rickettsi'' ([[Peanut worm]])
*''Nephtys rickettsi'' ([[Polychaete worm]])
*''Mesochaetopterus rickettsi'' (Polychaete worm)
*''Polydora rickettsi'' Woodwick 1961 (Polychaete worm)
*''Panoploea rickettsi'' ([[Talitridae|Sand flea]])
*''Pentactinia rickettsi'' ([[Sea anemone]])
*''Palythoa rickettsi'' ([[Zoanthid]])
*''[[Metridium farcimen|Isometridium rickettsi]]'' (Sea anemone)
*''Pycnogonum rickettsi'' Schmitt, 1934 ([[Sea spider]])
*''Asbestopluma rickettsi'' Lundsten et al., 2014 ([[Sea sponge]])<ref>Lundsten et al., 2014, "Four new species of Cladorhizidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the Northeast Pacific," ''Zootaxa'' 3786 (2): 101-123.</ref>
*''Poecillastra rickettsi'' (Sea sponge)
*''Acorylus rickettsi'' Coan & Valentich-Scott, 2010 ([[Bivalvia|Clam]])