Myrmotherula snowi Teixeira & Gonzaga, 1985

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

Myrmotherula snowi Teixeira & Gonzaga, 1985 ,

Alagoas Antwren (IUCN and MMA: CR)

This species is known from just four disjunct localities: ESEC Murici (Alagoas), RPPN Frei Caneca , Mata do Estado and Engenho Jussará (Pernambuco) ( Mazar-Barnett et al., 2005; Roda et al., 2011). There have been no recent records from RPPN Frei Caneca , where the last report concerns a single female photographed in 2007 (WA#92572; 13/12/2007). Despite extensive searching using playback (e.g., at Engenho Jussará, Bonito, Gravatá, Maraial and Brejo dos Cavalos), we were unable to find any additional sites for this species. This species requires urgent conservation intervention to prevent its imminent extinction; less than 30 individuals are thought to survive and the species shares life history traits (such as area sensitivity and obligatory flock-following behaviour) with the Alagoas Foliage-gleaner (see Lees et al., 2014a) .