Elio Massoia, Argentine mammalogist or mastozoologist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1936 – Buenos Aires 22 May 2001)

Authored over 240 scientific works

Developed Kuns-Massoia live trap

DESCRIBED VALID MAMMALIAN TAXA

Genus

Bibimys 1979 (in honor to his daughter Bibiana Massoia)

Species

Bibimys torresi 1979

Necromys temchuki 1982

Oligoryzomys fornesi 1973

Oligoryzomys brendae 1998

HONORS

Massoiamys Vucetich 1978 (Fossil Mammalia)