Biography

João Moojen de Oliveira, Brazilian mammalogist and ornithologist (Leopoldina, Minas Gerais State 01 December 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 31 March 1985)

Authored 62 publications

Developed a new method for Muridae extermination

Described a new taxidermy technique of small mammalians in Captura e preparação de pequenos mamíferos para coleções de estudo (1943)

Formulated Karnol ratio for dogs and another ratio for birds

DESCRIBED VALID MAMMALIA TAXA

Genus

Juscelinomys 1965

Species

Gracilinanus agricolai 1943

Juscelinomys candango 1965

Kerodon acrobata 1997 with Locks & Langguth (posthumous) 

Phyllomys kerri 1950

Trinomys gratiosus 1948

Trinomys paratus 1948

Subspecies

Proechimys guyanensis arabupu 1948

Proechimys guyanensis riparum 1948

Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) aestuans poaiae 1942

Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) ignitus cabrerai 1958

Trinomys gratiosus gratiosus 1948

Trinomys gratiosus bonafidei 1948

Trinomys setosus denigratus 1948

HONORS

Moojenia Mello Leitão 1935 (Arachnida) 

Moojenodesmus Schubart 1945 (Diplopoda)