Species of bird
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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. It had not been seen or heard in Victoria for 40 years until 2022 when a recording of its song was made in Big Desert Wilderness Park.
Taxonomy.
The species was formerly considered as a subspecies of "Psophodes nigrogularis", 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).
The white-bellied whipbird was described by the Australian ornithologists Frank Howe and John Ross in 1933. It was split from the black-throated whipbird (formerly the western whipbird) based on a comparison of mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2017.
Two subspecies are recognised:
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