Álvaro Jaime Mones Sibillotte (born 7 August 1942 in

Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

) is a Uruguayan biologist and paleontologist.Uruguayan biologists
The fossil ''

Josephoartigasia monesi ''Josephoartigasia'' is an extinct genus of enormous dinomyid rodent from the Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Uruguay. The only living member of Dinomyidae is the pacarana. ''Josephoartigasia'' is named after Uruguayan national hero Jo ...

'' is named after him, for his study of the rodent in 1966.

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