White-bellied whipbird

The white-bellied whipbird (Psophodes leucogaster), also called the Mallee whipbird, is a species of bird in the family Psophodidae. It is endemic to southern Australia.

White-bellied whipbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Psophodidae
Genus: Psophodes
Species:
P. leucogaster
Binomial name
Psophodes leucogaster
Howe & Ross, 1933

Taxonomy

The species was formerly considered as a subspecies of Psophodes nigrogularis, the so shared the common name of western whipbird. The Clements Checklist refers to this species with the common name western whipbird (white-bellied) to distinguish it from P. nigrogularis (black-throated).[1]

The white-bellied whipbird was described by the Australian ornithologists Frank Howe and John Ross in 1933.[2] It was split from the black-throated whipbird (formerly the western whipbird) based on a comparison of mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2017.[3]

Two subspecies are recognised:[4]

  • P. l. leucogaster Howe & Ross, JA, 1933 – south central Australia
  • P. l. lashmari Mason, IJ & Schodde, 1991 – Kangaroo Island (off Southern Australia)

References
  1. "Clements Checklist: Updates & Corrections – August 2017 | Clements Checklist". www.birds.cornell.edu. Cornell University. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  2. Howe, Frank Ernest; Ross, John Alexander (1933). "On the occurrence of Psophodes nigrogularis in Victoria". Emu. 32 (3): 133–148 [147]. doi:10.1071/mu932133.
  3. Burbidge, A.H.; Joseph, L.; Toon, A.; White, L.C.; McGuire, A.; Austin, J.J. (2017). "A case for realigning species limits in the southern Australian whipbirds long recognised as the Western Whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis)". Emu. 117 (3): 254–263. doi:10.1080/01584197.2017.1313685. S2CID 90267260.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Australasian babblers, logrunners, satinbirds, painted berrypeckers, wattlebirds, whipbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
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