Richard Pyle

{{short description|American ichthyologist and scuba diver}}

{{Infobox scientist

| image = Richard L. Pyle On Boat in Philippines, with Poseidon SE7EN Rebreather.jpg

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| caption = Pyle in the Philippines

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|24 March 1967}}

| birth_place = Kailua, Hawaii

| fields = Marine biology

| workplaces = Bishop Museum

| education = Ph.D., Zoology

| alma_mater = University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

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Richard Lawrence Pyle (born 24 March 1967) is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working on Hawaii.{{cite web |title=Hawaii Biological Survey Staff, Richard L. Pyle |url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/staff/pylerichard.html |website=Bishop Museum |year=2009 |access-date=6 April 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pdffiller.com/en/project/88942705.htm |title=Curriculum vitae, Richard L Pyle, Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, Honolulu |last=Pyle |first=Richard |access-date=30 December 2016}}

Pyle discovered the principle of "Pyle stops" when decompressing from many deep dives in search of new species of fish, and has identified hundreds of new species.{{cite web|url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/6066|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525035245/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/6066|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 25, 2013|title=The importance of deep safety stops: Rethinking ascent patterns from decompression dives|last=Pyle|first=Richard L.|year=1997|work=Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society|publisher=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society|access-date=9 March 2016}}{{cite web |title=Richard Pyle |url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_pyle |website=TED.com |access-date=6 April 2016}}

He is the author of over 130 publications.

In October 2015, he won second prize, an award of €5,000, in the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, a Global Biodiversity Information Facility competition, for BioGUID.org, "a web service that crosslinks identifiers linked to data objects in the biodiversity realm".{{cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/newsroom/news/2015-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-winners|title=Winners named for first GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge|date=30 October 2015|publisher=Global Biodiversity Information Facility|access-date=30 June 2016}} At that time, the site contained over one billion (1,000,000,000) identifiers. He has been honoured by having the twilight fangblenny (Petroscirtes pylei) named in his honor.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | access-date = 7 April 2019 | date = 26 October 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}

Pyle is a member of ZooBank Committee and the leader of ZooBank architecture policy working group.[http://iczn.org/content/zoobank-committee "ZooBank Committee"], accessed 6 November 2017.