It is named after the American bacteriologist Ericka Ralston. Ericka Ralston was born Ericka Barrett in 1944 in Saratoga, California, and died in 2015 in Sebastopol, California.
The name is dedicated to the American bacteriologist Erica Ralston. Born as Erica Barrett in 1944 in Saratoga, California, she died in 2015 in Sebastopol, California.