William David Lindsay Ride AM (8 May 1926 – 6 November 2011), usually credited as W. D. L. Ride, was an Australian vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist who was the chair of the committee that wrote updated editions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
In 1975, he was appointed director of the Australian Biological Resources Study, located within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in Canberra.
Following retirement in 198, he became a visiting fellow at the Australian National University until 2002.
[1] He died in 2011 in Canberra, aged 85, survived by his wife Margaret and five children including the writer, curator and academic Peter Ride.
[2] As well as numerous papers in the scientific literature, books written or edited by Ride include: