Polychaeta taxon details
Holotype USNM 32686, geounit Newport Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution East Pacific Ocean: Newport Bay (California, USA); Ensenada Estuary (Baja California, Mexico). [details]
Etymology "Another anterior portion [of Mesochaetopterus rickettsii], from Ensenada Estuary, Mexico, had previously been sent to us by Mr. E. F. Ricketts, who also sent eight similar fragments from Newport Bay, California, in 1932. [...] We take pleasure in naming the species after Mr. E. F. Ricketts" (Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941: 43-44). Edward Flanders Robb Riketts (b. Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 14, 1897 – d. Monterey, California, USA, May 11, 1948), commonly known as Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist and philosopher, best known for the book "Between Pacific Tides" (1939), for the coauthorship with John Steinbeck of the book "Sea of Cortez" (1941), and as the main responsible of the Pacific Biological Laboratories, in Monterey. [details]
Habitat Intertidal, in silty sands. [details]
Holotype Deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA (USNM 32686). [details]
Type locality Newport Bay, California, USA, East Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 33.602°, -117.888°). [details]
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