Biology:Mainland Asian tiger
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| Panthera tigris tigris | |
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| Bengal tiger in Jim Corbett National Park, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
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| Subspecies: | P. t. tigris
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| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
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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. et al. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group". Cat News Special Issue 11: 66–68. https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32616/A_revised_Felidae_Taxonomy_CatNews.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
- ↑ 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. https://archive.org/stream/zoologischeranze28deut#page/594/mode/2up.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mazák, V. (1981). "Panthera tigris". Mammalian Species 152 (152): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3504004. http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-152-01-0001.pdf. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ↑ Mazák, V. (1968). "Nouvelle sous-espèce de tigre provenant de l'Asie du sud-est". Mammalia 32 (1): 104.
- ↑ Template:IUCN
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