Rick C. West

Rick C. West (born 1951; R.C. West), arachnologist, Canada.

Natural History Section, Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4 Canada
3436 Blue Sky Place, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V9C 3N5.
Email: rickcwest@shaw.ca

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Reichling, S.B. & West, R.C. 1996. A New Genus and Species of Theraphosid Spider from Belize (Araneae, Theraphosidae) Journal of Arachnology 24(1): 254–261. full article (PDF). Reference page.

West, R.C. 2000. Some new theraphosids from western Mexico (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). The Southwestern Naturalist 45: 299-305. Reference page.
West, R.C. & Marshall, S.D. 2000: Description of two new species of Ephebopus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae). Arthropoda 8(2): 6-14. Reference page.

West, R.C., Marshall, S.D., Fukushima, C.S. & Bertani 2008: Review and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical tarantula genus Ephebopus Simon 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with notes on the Aviculariinae Zootaxa 1849: 35–58. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

West, R.C. & Nunn, S.C. 2010a: A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Lyrognathus Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with notes on the Selenocosmiinae. Zootaxa 2362: 1–43. Preview Reference page.
West, R.C. & Nunn, S.C. 2010b: A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Coremiocnemis Simon 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with further notes on the Selenocosmiinae. Zootaxa 2443: 1–64. Preview Reference page.

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: 1–43. Preview Reference page.

Nunn, S.C. & West, R.C. 2013. A new species of tarantula spider in the genus Lyrognathus Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Sumatra. International Scholarly Research Network Zoology 2013(590809): 1-13. DOI: 10.1155/2013/590809. . Reference page.

Nunn, S.C., West, R.C. & von Wirth, V. 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): 1-54. DOI: 10.1155/2016/9895234. Reference page.

Montemor, V.M., West, R.C., Zamani, A., Moradmand, M., von Wirth, V., Wendt, I., Huber, S. & Guadanucci, J.P.L. 2020. Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoology in the Middle East 66(1): 76-90. DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2020.1675994. . Reference page.
Nicoletta, M., Chaparro, J.C., Mamani, L., Ochoa, J.A., West. R.C. & Ferretti, N.E. 2020. Two new endemic species of Bistriopelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Peru, including a new remarkable horned tarantula. European Journal of Taxonomy 644: 1–20. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.644. . Reference page.

Sherwood, D., Ferretti, N.E., Gabriel, R. & West. R.C. 2021. Redescription of the theraphosine Hapalotremus albipes Simon, 1903 and description of four new species of Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 from Peru and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(9):965-989. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.9.965. . ResearchGate .Reference page.

Zamani, A. & West, R.C. 2023. A new species of Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Iran. Zookeys 1174ː 75–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1174.109135 Reference page.