Antenor Leitão de 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 – a species of catfish
 * Icthyocephalus antenori Travassos & Kloss, 1959
 * Amphisbaena carvalhoi Gans, 1965
 * Odontophrynus carvalhoi Savage & Cei, 1965
 * Micrurus lemniscatus carvalhoi Roze, 1967
 * Syncope antenori (Walker, 1973)
 * Syncope carvalhoi Nelson, 1975
 * Bokermannohyla carvalhoi (Peixoto, 1981)
 * Zachaenus carvalhoi Izecksohn, 1983
 * Panopa carvalhoi Rebouças & Vanzolini, 1990
 * Dendrophryniscus carvalhoi Izecksohn, 1994
 * Colobosauroides carvalhoi Soares & Caramaschi, 1998

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
 * MyersiellaCarvalho, 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)