Sunda Island tiger

Panthera tigris sondaica
	The Sumatran tiger is the only living tiger population in the Sunda Islands
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Pantherinae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. tigris
Subspecies:	P. t. sondaica
Trinomial name
	Panthera tigris sondaica; (Temminck, 1844)

The Sunda Island tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) is a tiger subspecies native to the Sunda Islands in Indonesia. The name refers to the:^[1]

Javan tiger (P. t. sondaica) — the extinct tiger population of Java^[2]
Bali tiger, formerly P. t. balica (Schwarz, 1912) — the extinct tiger population of Bali^[3]
Sumatran tiger, formerly P. t. sumatrae Pocock, 1929 — the living tiger population of Sumatra^[4]

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).
↑ Jackson, P. & Nowell, K. (2008). "Panthera tigris ssp. sondaica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature.
↑ Jackson, P. & Nowell, K. (2008). "Panthera tigris ssp. balica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature.
↑ Linkie, M.; Wibisono, H. T.; Martyr, D. J.; Sunarto, S. (2008). "Panthera tigris" ssp. "sumatrae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017-1. International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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