Cissopis leverianus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)

Lima, Rafael Dantas, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Lemos, Renata Constant de Amorim, Lobo-Araújo, Lahert William, Andrade, Arthur Barbosa de, Francisco, Mercival Roberto & Efe, Márcio Amorim, 2022, An annotated avian inventory of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, one of the world’s most threatened avifauna, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-36 : 14

Cissopis leverianus

One specimen collected at the Saltinho Biological Reserve, Pernambuco, on 19 September 1979 (UFPE 863) and three collected in Matriz de Camaragibe, Alagoas, in the 1980s (MNRJ 34562,35118 and MNA695) are the only documented records of this species in the PCE. More recent records in the PCE are all undocumented and are more than ten years old ( Farias et al., 2002; Roda, 2003; Lyra-Neves et al., 2004; Dantas et al., 2007; Rodrigues et al., 2007; Pereira, 2009c) thus suggesting that the species, as many others, may be regionally extinct. Interestingly, Teixeira et al. (1987) identified one specimen from Matriz de Camaragibe as being of the white-backed Amazonian subspecies C. l. leverianus. However, the specimen from the Saltinho Biological Reserve (examined only through photographs) seems to be of the black-backed subspecies (C. l. major). A comprehensive study is needed to assess the taxonomic validity and geographic distribution of C. l. leverianus and C. l. major.