Antenor Leitão de Carvalho is a
Brazil
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herpetologist
Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...
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ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
, born on 15 April 1910 and died on 11 December 1985 in
Rio de Janeiro
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Taxa named in his honor
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Pipa carvalhoi''
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Plecostomus carvalhoi''
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Discocystus carvalhoi''
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Bunocephalus carvalhoi''
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Mecynogea carvalhoi''
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Micrathena carvalhoi''
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Carvalhodesmus''
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Stenostreptus carvalhoi''
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Tityus carvalhoi''
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Arndtodesmus carvalhoi''
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Cynolebias carvalhoi''
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Cynolebias antenori''
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Harttia carvalhoi''
P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1939 – a species of catfish
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Icthyocephalus antenori''
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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). ]
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Odontophrynus carvalhoi''
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Micrurus lemniscatus carvalhoi
''Micrurus'' is a genus of venomous coral snakes of the family Elapidae.
Geographic range
Species in the genus ''Micrurus'' are endemic to the Americas.
Species
The following 83 species are recognized as being valid.
*'' Micrurus albicinctus'' ...
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Syncope antenori''
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Syncope carvalhoi''
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Bokermannohyla carvalhoi''
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Zachaenus carvalhoi''
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Panopa carvalhoi'' , 1990
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Dendrophryniscus carvalhoi
''Dendrophryniscus carvalhoi'' is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
It is endemic to Brazil.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed h ...
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Colobosauroides carvalhoi''
Taxa described
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Arcovomer
''Arcovomer'' is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species ''Arcovomer passarellii'', commonly known as Passarelli's frog. It is endemic to south-eastern Brazil and found in Espírito Sa ...
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Arcovomer passarellii''
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Hamptophryne
''Hamptophryne'' (common name: bleating frogs) is a small genus of microhylid frogs from South America. The genus was previously monotypic, but because of the close phylogenetic relationship between ''Hamptophryne'' and ''Altigius'', another mono ...
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Hyophryne''
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Hyophryne histrio''
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Macrogenioglottus alipioi''
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Macrogenioglottus''
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Myersiella''
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Paratelmatobius
''Paratelmatobius'' is a genus of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae. They are endemic to southern Brazil.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Paratelmatobius '':
AmphibiaWeb also lists ''Paratelmatobius pictiventris ...
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Paratelmatobius lutzii
''Paratelmatobius lutzii'' is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. The species is endemic to Brazil, where it is known from the Mantiqueira Mountains in the state of Minas Gerais.
Its natural habitats are montane forests. It is only k ...
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Rhinella dapsilis
''Rhinella dapsilis'' is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, freshwater marsh
A marsh is a wetland ...
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Rhinella pygmaea''
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Synapturanus''
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Anolis phyllorhinus''
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Siagonodon cupinensis''
See also
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: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).
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Notes & references
Source
*Biographical information is based on a translation from an equivalent article at the
French Wikipedia
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Brazilian herpetologists
1910 births
1985 deaths