Mainland Asian tiger
| Panthera tigris tigris | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Bengal tiger in Jim Corbett National Park, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. tigris |
| Subspecies: | P. t. tigris |
| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
The Mainland Asian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is a term used for the following tiger populations in continental Asia:[1]
- Bengal tiger (P. t. tigris) — inhabits the Indian Subcontinent from the foot of the Himalayas to Cape Comorin[2]
- South China tiger, formerly P. t. amoyensis (Hilzheimer, 1905) — occurs in southern China[3]
- Caspian tiger, formerly P. t. virgata (Illiger, 1815) — inhabited Central Asia[4]
- Siberian tiger, formerly P. t. altaica (Temminck, 1844) — inhabits Siberia[4]
- Indochinese tiger, formerly P. t. corbetti Mazák, 1968 — inhabits Southeast Asia[5]
- Malayan tiger, formerly P. t. jacksoni Luo et al., 2004 — inhabits Peninsular Malaysia[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Kitchener, A. C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Abramov, A. V.; Christiansen, P.; Driscoll, C.; Duckworth, J. W.; Johnson, W.; Luo, S.-J.; Meijaard, E.; O’Donoghue, P.; Sanderson, J.; Seymour, K.; Bruford, M.; Groves, C.; Hoffmann, M.; Nowell, K.; Timmons, Z.; Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group" (PDF). Cat News. Special Issue 11: 66–68.
- ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1929). "Tigers". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 33 (3−4): 505–541.
- ↑ Hilzheimer, M. (1905). "Über einige Tigerschädel aus der Straßburger zoologischen Sammlung". Zoologischer Anzeiger (28): 594–599.
- 1 2 Mazák, V. (1981). "Panthera tigris" (PDF). Mammalian Species. 152 (152): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3504004. JSTOR 3504004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ↑ Mazák, V. (1968). "Nouvelle sous-espèce de tigre provenant de l'Asie du sud-est". Mammalia 32 (1): 104.
- ↑ Kawanishi, K. (2015). "Panthera tigris subsp. jacksoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017-1. International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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