Nicolas Pike (January 26, 1818 – April 11, 1905) was an American consul and a naturalist.
[4] He trained soldiers in Long Island during the American Civil War and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
[6] He painted fish and collected specimens that are now part of collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, the Mauritius Herbarium, and the American Museum of Natural History.
[7][4] He served as president of the Brooklyn Natural History Society and as the U.S. Consul to Mauritius from 1867 to 1873.
[8] He documented fish species in the Western Indian Ocean habitat around Mauritius and neighboring islands.