John Treadwell Nichols

John Treadwell Nichols should be not mistaken with John Nichols, the author of The Milagro Beanfield War which is also sometimes credited as John Treadwell Nichols

John Treadwell Nichols (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. These 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.

Trivia

In 1921 he discovered 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)

These works include Bulletin articles from AMNH

• Fishes in the Vicinity of New York City
• One new, and other labroid fishes from Bali
• Notes on carangin fishes. 6, East Indian mackerel scads (Decapterus) described and differentiated
• Fresh-water fishes from Cape York, Australia
• A new Collichthys, with remarks on this genus of fishes
• Hynnis and Alectis in the American Museum of Natural History
• A key to the species of Trachurus
• A list of Turk Islands fishes, with a description of a new flatfish
• On a collection of marine fishes from Peru
• Deep sea fishes of the 'Albatross' Lower California Expedition
• The fishes of Hainan
• Chinese fresh-water fishes in the American Museum of Natural History's collections : a provisional check-list of the fresh-water fishes of China
• A collection of fishes from the Panama Bight, Pacific Ocean