Rick C. West

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Rick C. West
Born (1951-12-03) December 3, 1951 (age 69)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
CitizenshipCanada
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
Author abbrev. (zoology)West

Rick C. West (born 3 December 1951) is a Canadian arachnologist with a main expertise toward tarantula spiders.[1][2] West was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He has been interested in spiders since childhood, and collected his first tarantula, Aphonopelma eutylenum at the age of 13. He worked primarily as a Chief Constable for a local Animal Humane Society, but also have been involved with the collecting, breeding, rearing and photography of theraphosid spiders.[3] West has traveled to over 27 countries to document and study them in their environment, has been a host, presenter and co-producer in several tarantula documentaries and has also described several new species.[1][4][5][6][7][8]

Described theraphosid taxa[]

  • Species
    • Reichling & West, 2000
    • West & Nunn, 2010
    • West & Nunn, 2010
    • West & Nunn, 2010
    • Reichling & West, 1996
    • West, 2000
    • Ephebopus cyanognathus West & Marshall, 2000
    • Ephebopus foliatus West, Marshall, Fukushima & Bertani, 2008
    • Ephebopus rufescens West & Marshall, 2000
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • Ferretti, Cavalllo, Chaparro, Ríos-Tamayo, Seimon & West, 2018
    • West & Nunn, 2010
    • Lyrognathus fuscus West & Nunn, 2010
    • Nunn & West, 2013
    • West & Nunn, 2010
    • West, 1991 (synonymous with Smith, 1988)
    • (West, 2000)
    • Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016
    • Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016
    • Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016
    • Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016
    • (West & Nunn, 2010)
    • West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012
    • (West & Nunn, 2010)
    • (West & Nunn, 2010)

Eponymous Taxa[]

  • Species
    • Azarkina & Zamani, 2019 (Salticidae)
    • Antillena rickwesti (Bertani & Huff, 2013) (Theraphosidae)
    • Raven, 1999 (Paratropididae)
    • Smith, 1990 (Theraphosidae)

Filmography[]

Year Title Role Notes
2015 Haunters Himself Post Production
2008 Monsterquest Himself Episode: Monster Spider
2006 The Real Lost World Himself TV Movie
2002 Tarantula: King of the Spiders Himself TV Movie
2002 Spidermania Himself TV Movie
1998 Champions of the Wild Himself Episode: Tarantulas

Selected publications[]

  • Nunn, S. C., West, R. C. & Wirth, V. von (2016): A revision of the selenocosmiine tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock 1897 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with description of 4 new species. International Journal of Zoology 2016(9895234) Full Text
  • West, R. C., Nunn, S. C. & Hogg, S. (2012): A new tarantula genus, Psednocnemis, from west Malaysia (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with cladistic analysis and biogeography of Selenocosmiinae Simon 1889. Zootaxa 3299 Abstract
  • West, R. C. & Nunn, S. C. (2010): A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Coremiocnemis Simon 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with further notes on the Selenocosmiinae. Zootaxa 2443 Abstract
  • West, R. C. & Nunn, S. C. (2010): A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Lyrognathus Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with notes on the Selenocosmiinae. Zootaxa 2362 Abstract
  • West, R. C., Marshall, S. D., Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2008): Review and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical tarantula genus Ephebopus Simon 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with notes on the Aviculariinae. Zootaxa 1849 Abstract

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Profile: Rick C West - Birdspiders.com". birdspiders.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  2. ^ "Tarantula! | | TPW magazine | March 2010". tpwmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  3. ^ "Lasiodora - Váš web o chove vtáčkarov". lasiodora.sk. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. ^ "Rick West - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  5. ^ https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01849p058f.pdf
  6. ^ https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02362p043f.pdf
  7. ^ "A nature photographer's hairy moment in UAE leads to discovery of a new species of spider | The National". thenational.ae. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  8. ^ Christine Dell'Amore. "Puppy-Size Tarantula Found: Explaining World's Biggest Spider – National Geographic Society (blogs)". voices.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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