Susan Lim (parasitologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Malaysian parasitologist
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Place of Birth: Seremban, Malaysia
About Susan Lim (parasitologist)
- Lee Hong Susan Lim (February 14, 1952 – August 2, 2014), more commonly known as Susan Lim, was a Malaysian parasitologist who specialised on the Monogenea, a class of parasitic flatworms which are important ectoparasites of fishes.
- She was the first and only Malaysian commissioner elected to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.
- Her research was mainly in the fields of taxonomy and faunistics, although in later years, she became involved in a wide range of parasitological disciplines.She has been considered the leading monogenean specialist in South-East Asia.
- By describing more than 100 new species and reassigning more than 100 others, she became the sixth most productive monogenean worker (and foremost female worker) of all time.
- She is also noted for describing an entirely new attachment mechanism in the form of net-like structures formed by secretions from the haptor of some of her worms.Susan Lim died from cancer in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, on August 2, 2014, after a long illness.
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