Biology:Sunda Island tiger

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Panthera tigris sondaica
Tigre de Sumatra 2.jpg
The Sumatran tiger is the only living tiger population in the Sunda Islands
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species:
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]

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