Richard L. Pyle

Richard Lawrence Pyle (born 1967), U.S. biologist.

Bishop Museum, Honolulu, United States of America.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Pyle, R.L. 1990: Centropyge debelius, a new species of angelfish (Teleostei: Pomacanthidae) from Mauritius and Réunion. Revue française d'aquariologie et d'herpétologie 17(2): 47-52. Reference page.

Pyle, R.L. 1992: The peppermint angelfish Centropyge boylei, n. sp. Pyle and Randall. Freshwater and marine aquarium 15(7): 16-18. Reference page.

Pyle, R.L. & Randall, J.E. [1992] 1993. A new species of Centropyge from the Cook Islands, with a redescription of Centropyge boylei. Revue française d'aquariologie et d'herpétologie 19(4): 115–124. Reference page.

Randall, J.E. & Pyle, R.L. 2008. Synodus orientalis, a new lizardfish (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) from Taiwan and Japan, with correction of the Asian record of S. lobeli. Zoological Studies 47(5): 657–662. PDF Reference page.

Copus, J., Ka’apu-Lyons, C.A. & Pyle, R., 2015: Luzonichthys seaver, a new species of Anthiinae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Pohnpei, Micronesia. Biodiversity Data Journal, 3: e4902. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4902

Copus, J.M., Pyle, R.L. & Earle, J.L. 2015: Neoniphon pencei, a new species of holocentrid (Teleostei: Beryciformes) from Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Biodiversity data journal, 3: e4180. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4180 Reference page.

Pyle, R.L., Greene, B.D. & Kosaki, R.K. 2016. Tosanoides obama, a new basslet (Perciformes, Percoidei, Serranidae) from deep coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. ZooKeys 641: 165–181. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.641.11500. Reference page.
Pyle, R.L. & Kosaki, R.K. 2016. Prognathodes basabei, a new species of butterflyfish (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae) from the Hawaiian Archipelago. ZooKeys 614: 137–152. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.614.10200 Reference page.

Pyle, R.L., Greene, B.D., Copus, J.M. & Randall, J.E. 2018. Tosanoides annepatrice, a new basslet from deep coral reefs in Micronesia (Perciformes, Percoidei, Serranidae). ZooKeys 786: 139–153. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.786.28421 Reference page.
Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Ammirati, J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology 16(3): e2005075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 Reference page.

Arango, B.G., Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C., Greene, B.D., Pyle, R.L., Copus, J.M., Shepherd, B. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. Zookeys, 835: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.835.27528 Reference page.
Copus, J.M., Pyle, R.L., Greene, B.D. & Randall, J.E. 2019. Prognathodes geminus, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from Palau. Zookeys 835: 125–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.835.32562 Reference page.

Tea, Y.-K., Pyle, R.L. & Rocha, L.A. 2020. A New Species of Fairy Wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Verde Island Passage, Philippiness. Copeia 108(1) 91–102. DOI: 10.1643/CI-19-297 Online with link to PDF. Reference page.