Automolus lammi Zimmer, 1947

Pereira, Glauco Alves, Dantas, Sidnei de Melo, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Roda, Sônia Aline, Albano, Ciro, Sonntag, Frederico Acaz, Leal, Sergio, Periquito, Mauricio Cabral, Malacco, Gustavo Bernardino & Lees, Alexander Charles, 2014, Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 54 (14), pp. 177-194 : 187

Automolus lammi Zimmer, 1947 ,

Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner (Not Evaluated)

Zimmer (2008) advocated splitting this taxon from its putative sister-species, the White-eyed Foliage-gleaner ( Automolus leucophthalmus ) a change subsequently adopted by the South American Classification Committee (Remsen et al., 2013) which means a formal conservation assessment by the IUCN is due. We consider this species to be globally threatened given that it is only known from 16 localities in Pernambuco, Paraíba and Alagoas (Roda, 2003; Silveira et al., 2003a; Farias et al., 2007) and we present records from five new sites ( Table 2). This species was also found south of the São Francisco river, in Sergipe (beyond the PCE as usually delimited) at the Mata do Crasto, in the municipality of Santa Luzia do Itanhy by A. Grosset & J. Minns. It is hoped that the belated recognition of species status for this distinctive taxon may afford it a higher conservation profile (e.g., Mace, 2004).