Caspian tiger

English

A Caspian tiger

Noun

Caspian tiger (plural Caspian tigers)

An extinct tiger subspecies, Panthera tigris virgata, that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabited the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through Central Asia into the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

Hyrcanian tiger
Turan tiger

Translations

extinct tiger

Chinese:
Mandarin: 裡海虎, 里海虎 (lǐhǎilhǔ)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kaspiantiikeri

Persian: ببر مازندران‎ (babr-e mâzandarân), ببر هیرکانی‎ (babr-e hirkâni)
Portuguese: tigre do Cáspio m
Russian: закавка́зский тигр m (zakavkázskij tigr), тура́нский тигр m (turánskij tigr)

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