Joseph K.H. Koh

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Title

Joseph K.H. Koh

Contributor Item Type Metadata

First Name

Joseph K.H.

Surname or Business Name

Koh

Years Affiliated

2015

Affiliation

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

Birth Date

1948

Birthplace

Singapore

Occupation

Arachnologist

Biographical Text

Joseph K. H. Koh has been documenting Southeast Asian spiders outside his previous duties as an ambassador and senior government official since 1972. His research has led to several scientific papers describing new spider species from Singapore and Brunei, a pictorial field guide of Singapore spiders (1991) and another on Borneo spiders (2014). Mr Koh retired in 2012 as the Singapore High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam. He is currently an Honorary Research Affiliate at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum of the National University of Singapore.