Antenor Leitão de Carvalho was a Brazilian herpetologist and ichthyologist, born on 15 April 1910 and died on 11 December 1985 in Rio de Janeiro.
Taxa named in his honor Hypostomus carvalhoi is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Jaguaribe River basin. Pipa carvalhoi Plecostomus carvalhoi Discocystus carvalhoi Bunocephalus carvalhoi Mecynogea carvalhoi Micrathena carvalhoi Carvalhodesmus Stenostreptus carvalhoi Tityus carvalhoi Arndtodesmus carvalhoi Cynolebias carvalhoi Cynolebias antenori Harttia carvalhoi P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1939 – a species of catfish Icthyocephalus antenori Amphisbaena carvalhoi Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Carvalho, A. L.", p. 49). Odontophrynus carvalhoi Micrurus lemniscatus carvalhoi Syncope antenori Syncope carvalhoi Bokermannohyla carvalhoi Zachaenus carvalhoi Panopa carvalhoi , 1990 Dendrophryniscus carvalhoi Colobosauroides carvalhoi
Taxa described Arcovomer Arcovomer passarellii Hamptophryne Hyophryne Hyophryne histrio Macrogenioglottus alipioi Macrogenioglottus Myersiella Paratelmatobius Paratelmatobius lutzii Relictivomer Rhinella dapsilis Rhinella pygmaea Synapturanus Anolis phyllorhinus Siagonodon cupinensis
See also
:Category:Taxa named by Antenor Leitão de Carvalho
Biography Nomura, Hitoshi (1993). "A obra científica de Antenor Leitão de Carvalho (1910-1985)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 10 (3): 545–552. (in Portuguese). (texte)
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Sources Biographical information is based on a translation from an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.