People:
Richard Pyle


Richard Pyle

Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum  (United States of America)





Research interests
Publications

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

New records of fishes from Johnston Atoll, with notes on biogeography | article
Kosaki RK, Pyle RL, Randall JE, Irons DK (1991)
Pac Sci 45:186-203
Theme section on 'Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems: Characterization, Ecology, and Management' | article
Hinderstein LM, Marr JCA, Martinez FA, Dowgiallo MJ, Puglise KA, Pyle RL, Zawada DG, Appeldoorn R (2010)
Coral Reefs 29:247-251

Mesophotic surveys of the flora and fauna at Johnston Atoll, Central Pacific Ocean | article
Wagner D, Kosaki RK, Spalding HL, Whitton RK, Pyle RL, Sherwood AR, Tsuda RT, Calcinai B (2014)
Mar Biodivers Rec 7:e68

New Records of Commercially Valuable Black Corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at Mesophotic Depths | article
Wagner D, Papastamatiou YP, Kosaki RK, Gleason KA, McFall GB, Boland RC, Pyle RL, Toonen RJ (2011)
Pac Sci 65:249-255

Five new species of the damselfish genus Chromis (Perciformes: Labroidei: Pomacentridae) from deep coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific | article
Pyle RL, Earle JL, Greene BD (2008)
Zootaxa 1671:3-31

Luzonichthys seaver, a new species of Anthiinae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Pohnpei, Micronesia | article
Copus JM, Ka'apu-Lyons CA, Pyle RL (2015)
Biodivers Data J 3:e4902

Neoniphon pencei, a new species of holocentrid (Teleostei: Beryciformes) from Rarotonga, Cook Islands | article
Copus JM, Pyle RL, Earle JL (2015)
Biodivers Data J 3:e4180

Field comparison of open-circuit scuba to closed-circuit rebreathers for deep mixed-gas diving operations | article
Parrish FA, Pyle RL (2002)
Mar Technol Soc J 36:13-22

Assessing Undiscovered Fish Biodiversity on Deep Coral Reefs Using Advanced Self-Contained Diving Technology | article
Pyle RL (2000)
Mar Technol Soc J 34:82-91

Exploring deep coral reefs: How much biodiversity are we missing? | article
Pyle RL (1996)

100% endemism in mesophotic reef fish assemblages at Kure Atoll, Hawaiian Islands | article
Kosaki RK, Pyle RL, Leonard JC, Hauk BB, Whitton RK, Wagner D (2016)
Marine Biodiversity 47:783-784

To what extent do mesophotic coral ecosystems and shallow reefs share species of conservation interest? | review
Laverick JH, Andradi-Brown DA, Exton DA, Bongaerts P, Bridge TCL, Lesser MP, Pyle RL, Slattery M, Wagner D, Rogers AD (2016)
Environ Evid 5:1-8

Prognathodes basabei, a new species of butterflyfish (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae) from the Hawaiian Archipelago | article
Pyle RL, Kosaki RK (2016)
Zookeys 614:137-152

Compound-specific isotopic analysis of amino acids reveals dietary changes in mesophotic coral-reef fish | article
Bradley CJ, Longenecker K, Pyle RL, Popp BN (2016)
Mar Ecol Prog Ser 558:65-79

A review of the use of closed-circuit rebreathers for scientific diving | review
Sieber A, Pyle R (2010)
Underwater Technology 29:73-78

Phylogeographic analyses of submesophotic snappers Etelis coruscans and Etelis “marshi”(Family Lutjanidae) reveal concordant genetic structure acro... | article
Andrews KR, Moriwake VN, Wilcox C, Grau EG, Kelley C, Pyle RL, Bowen BW (2014)
PLoS ONE 9:e91665

Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs | article
Rocha LA, Pinheiro HT, Shepherd B, Papastamatiou YP, Luiz OJ, Pyle RL, Bongaerts P (2018)
Science

Synodus orientalis, a new lizardfish (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) from Taiwan and Japan, with correction of the Asian record of S. lobeli | article
Randall JE, Pyle RL (2008)
Zool Stud 47:657-662
To what extent do mesophotic coral ecosystems and shallow reefs share species of conservation interest? A systematic review | review
Laverick JH, Piango S, Andradi‑Brown DA, Exton DA, Bongaerts P, Bridge TCL, Lesser MP, Pyle RL, Slattery M, Wagner D, Rogers AD (2018)
Environ Evid

Three New Species of Labrid Fishes of the Genus Cirrhilabrus from the Islands of the Tropical Pacific | article
Randall JE, Pyle EL (2001)
J Ichthyol 4:89-98
Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines | article
Arango BG, Pinheiro HT, Rocha C, Greene BD, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Shepherd B, Rocha LA (2019)
Zookeys 835:1-15

Exploring the Biodiversity of Understudied Benthic Taxa at Mesophotic and Deeper Depths: Examples From the Order Zoantharia (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) | article
Reimer JD, Kise H, Santos MEA, Lindsay DJ, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Bowen BW, Nonaka M, Higashiji T, Benayahu Y (2019)
Front Mar Sci 6:305

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems:Introduction and Overview | chapter
Pyle RL, Copus JM (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
Fiji | chapter
Pyle RL (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
American Samoa | chapter
Montgomery AD, Fenner D, Kosaki RK, Pyle RL, Wagner D, Toonen RJ (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
Cook Islands | chapter
Pyle RL, Copus JM, McCormack G (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
The Hawaiian Archipelago | chapter
Spalding HL, Copus JM, Bowen BW, Kosaki RK, Longenecker K, Montgomery AD, Padilla-Gamino JL, Parrish FA, Roth MS, Rowley SJ, Toonen RJ, Pyle R (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
Fishes: Biodiversity | chapter
Pyle RL, Kosaki RK, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA, Whitton RK, Copus JM (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges: A review of the importance, opportunities and challenges for protecting a global diversity hotspot on the high ... | article
Wagner D, Meer LVD, Gorny M, Sellanes J, Gaymer CF, Soto EH, Easton EE, Friedlander AM, Lindsay DJ, Molodtsova TN, Boteler B, Durussel C, Gjerde KM, Currie D, Gianni M, Brooks CM, Shiple MJ, Wilhelm T‘, Quesada M, Thomas T, Dunstan PK, Clark NA, Villanueva LA, Pyle RL, Clark MR, Georgian SE, Morgan LE (2021)
Marine Policy 126:104377

Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems | article
Bongaerts P, Perez-Rosales G, Radice VZ, Eyal G, Gori A, Gress E, Hammerman NM, Hernandez-Agreda A, Laverick J, Muir P, Pinheiro H, Pyle RL, Rocha L, Turner JA, Booker R (2019)
Database (Oxford)

Phylogeography of mesophotic coral ecosystems: squirrelfish and soldierfish (Holocentriformes: Holocentridae) | article
Copus JM, Walsh CAJ, Hoban ML, Lee AM, Pyle RL, Kosaki RK, Toonen RJ, Bowen BW (2022)
Diversity 14:691

The Habitat Persistence Hypothesis: a new perspective on the distribution of coral-reef organisms | article
Copus JM, Pyle RL, Bowen BW, Kosaki RK, Webster JM (2022)
Front. Biogeogr. 14:e57427

Prognathodes geminus, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from Palau | article
Copus JM, Pyle RL, Greene BD, Randall JE (2019)
Zookeys 835:125-137

Trophic structure of mesophotic fish assemblages in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands | article
Kosaki RK, Kane C, Pyle RL, Wagner D (2012)
Proc 12th Int Coral Reef Symp
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