• DOI:10.1007/BF03544294
• Corpus ID: 85638843

Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee / Lista comentada das aves do Brasil pelo Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos

@article{Piacentini2015AnnotatedCO,
  title={Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee / Lista comentada das aves do Brasil pelo Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos},
  author={V{\'i}tor Q. Piacentini and Alexandre Aleixo and Carlos Eduardo Agne and Giovanni Nachtigall Maur{\'i}cio and Jos{\'e} Fernando Pacheco and Gustavo A. Bravo and Guilherme R. R. Brito and Luciano Nicol{\'a}s Naka and Fabio Olmos and S{\'e}rgio Roberto Posso and Lu{\'i}s F{\'a}bio Silveira and Gustavo S. Betini and Eduardo Carrano and Ismael Franz and Alexander Charles Lees and Luciano M. Lima and Dimas Pioli and Fabio Schunck and F{\'a}bio Raposo do Amaral and Glayson A. Bencke and Mario Cohn-Haft and Luiz Fernando A. Figueiredo and Fernando Costa Straube and Evaldo Cesari},
  journal={Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia - Brazilian Journal of Ornithology},
  year={2015},
  volume={23},
  pages={90-298}
}

• V. Piacentini, A. Aleixo, +21 authors Evaldo Cesari
• Published 1 June 2015
• Biology
• Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia - Brazilian Journal of Ornithology

Since 2005, the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) has published updated checklists of Brazilian birds almost every year. Herein, we present a completely new and annotated version of our checklist. For the first time, we list all bird subspecies known from Brazil that are currently accepted by at least one key ornithological reference work. The inclusion of the subspecies should be seen as a synthesis, and not as a taxonomic endorsement. As such, we include in the new checklist 1919 avian species, 910 of which are treated as polytypic in reference works (2042 subspecies), totaling 3051 taxa at the species and subspecies level. We anticipate that several of the subspecies included in our list may be subject to future taxonomic upgrades to species status, while others will probably be shown to be invalid in the light of future taxonomic studies. The results highlight Brazil as a megadiverse country and reinforce the need for proper enforcement of political tools, laws and international commitments assumed by the country to preserve its biodiversity.