- John Treadwell Nichols should be not confused with John Nichols, the author of The Milagro Beanfield War, who is also sometimes credited as John Treadwell Nichols
John Treadwell Nichols (June 11, 1883 - November 10, 1958) was an American ichthyologist.
Biography
Nichols was curator of recent fishes at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1913 he founded Copeia which became the official journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1923. This society was established in 1913 too. In 1916 he was the first who described the long lost Bermuda Petrel which was rediscovered in 1906 by Louis Mowbray. From 1920 to 1941 he was associate curator in charge in the Department of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History. Nichols wrote 1,000 articles and books (not only about fish but also about birds) and he made many expeditions around the world.
Trivia
In 1921 he captured and marked an Eastern Box Turtle on Long Island which he named JN21-21. In 1990 a park ranger recaptured this specimen which is now at age 103 the oldest turtle on Long Island.
Works (selected)
- Fishes in the Vicinity of New York City
- The Freshwater fishes of China
- Field book of fresh-water fishes of North America north of Mexico
- Marine Fishes of New York and Southern New England
- Fishes and Shells of the Pacific World
- Representative North American Fresh-Water Fishes
