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Antenor Leitão de Carvalho

Brazilian herpetologist

Antenor Leitão de Carvalho
Born	(1910-04-15)April 15, 1910
Died	December 11, 1985(1985-12-11) (aged 75) Rio de Janeiro
Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology, Ichthyology
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Carvalho

Antenor Leitão de Carvalho is 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

Pipa carvalhoi (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
Plecostomus carvalhoi A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937
Discocystus carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1941
Bunocephalus carvalhoi A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1944
Mecynogea carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1944
Micrathena carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1944
Carvalhodesmus Schubart, 1945
Stenostreptus carvalhoi Schubart, 1945
Tityus carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1945
Arndtodesmus carvalhoi Schubart, 1947
Cynolebias carvalhoi G. Myers, 1947
Cynolebias antenori G. Myers, 1952
Harttia carvalhoi P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1939^[1] – a species of catfish
Icthyocephalus antenori Travassos & Kloss, 1959
Amphisbaena carvalhoi Gans, 1965^[2]
Odontophrynus carvalhoi Savage & Cei, 1965
Micrurus lemniscatus carvalhoi Roze, 1967^[2]
Syncope antenori (Walker, 1973)
Syncope carvalhoi Nelson, 1975
Bokermannohyla carvalhoi (Peixoto, 1981)
Zachaenus carvalhoi Izecksohn, 1983
Panopa carvalhoi Rebouças & Vanzolini, 1990^[2]
Dendrophryniscus carvalhoi Izecksohn, 1994
Colobosauroides carvalhoi Soares & Caramaschi, 1998^[2]

Taxa described

Arcovomer Carvalho, 1954
Arcovomer passarellii Carvalho, 1954
Hamptophryne Carvalho, 1954
Hyophryne Carvalho, 1954
Hyophryne histrio Carvalho, 1954
Macrogenioglottus alipioi Carvalho, 1946
Macrogenioglottus Carvalho, 1946
Myersiella Carvalho, 1954
Paratelmatobius Lutz & Carvalho, 1958
Paratelmatobius lutzii Lutz & Carvalho, 1958
Relictivomer Carvalho, 1954
Rhinella dapsilis (G. Myers & Carvalho, 1945)
Rhinella pygmaea (G. Myers & Carvalho, 1952)
Synapturanus Carvalho, 1954
Anolis phyllorhinus G. Myers & Carvalho, 1945
Siagonodon cupinensis Bailey & Carvalho, 1946

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)

Notes & references

^ Scharpf, Christopher; Lazara, Kenneth J. (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamilies LITHOGENINAE, HYPOPTOPOMINAE and LORICARIINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Carvalho, A. L.", p. 49).