12 Facts About Louis Euzet

Louis Euzet was a high-school student in Narbonne, France, and a student of the University of Montpellier.

Louis Euzet prepared his doctoral thesis in the Station de Biologie Marine at Sete, under the direction of Paul Mathias and Jean-George Baer; the thesis, on tetraphyllidean cestodes, was accepted on 16 June 1956.

Louis Euzet was a junior lecturer at the Station de Biologie Marine in Sete in 1947.

Louis Euzet moved in 1969 to the University of Montpellier, where he established his Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparee.

Louis Euzet retired in 1991, became an Emeritus Professor in 1992 and pursued his scientific work at the Station de Biologie Marine in Sete, where he was still active in 2012, aged 89.

Louis Euzet occupied the same room in the Station de Biologie Marine at Sete for more than 60 years.

Louis Euzet authored about 200 scientific publications between 1951 and 2012, described more than 60 new species of cestodes and more than 200 new species of monogeneans, and worked on the life-cycles and evolution of parasites.

Louis Euzet wrote seminal work on parasite specificity and the speciation of both monogeneans and cestodes.

Louis Euzet's laboratory in Montpellier was a hub where many students and researchers visited, and his small laboratory in the Station de Biologie Marine at Sete was still much frequented 10 years after his official retirement.

Louis Euzet travelled and collected parasites in many countries, including Africa, the United States, Mexico, India, Indonesia, French Polynesia and New Caledonia.

Louis Euzet supervised more than twenty theses and co-supervised about fifty more.

Mosts species named after Louis Euzet are parasitic Platyhelminthes.