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Panthera tigris

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Panthera tigris (Linnaeus 1758)

[Felis] tigris Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 41.

Type Locality: "Asia", fixed by Thomas (1911 a:135) as "Bengal" [India].

Vernacular Names: Tiger.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. tigris Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. altaica Temminck 1844

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. amoyensis Hilzheimer 1905

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. balica Schwarz 1912

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. corbetti Mazak 1968

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. sondaica Temminck 1844

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. sumatrae Pocock 1929

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. virgata Illiger 1815

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra only), Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Russia, Vietnam. Recently extinct in: Afghanistan, Georgia, Bali, Java, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extict as P. t. balica, P. t. sondaica, and P. t. virgata, Critically Endangered as P. t. altaica, P. t. amoyensis, and P. t. sumatrae, otherwise Endangered.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Mazák (1981). Revised by Pocock (1929) and Mazák (1979, 1981). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1929), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982 c), and Groves (1982 a).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 548, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Cites
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3919905 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/48B1C728C2712F5C1D999315BAC0C825 (URL)
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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Felidae
Genus
Panthera
Species
tigris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
  • Pocock, R. I. 1929. Tigers. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 33 (3): 505 - 541.
  • Weigel, I. 1961. Das Fellmuster der wildlebenden Katzenarten und der Hauskatze in Vergleichender und Stammesgeschicher Hinsicht. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 9: 1 - 120.
  • Hemmer, H. 1978. The evolutionary systematics of living Felidae: Present status and current problems. Carnivore, 1 (1): 71 - 79.
  • Groves, C. P. 1982 a. Cranial and dental characteristics in the systematics of Old World Felidae. Carnivore, 5 (2): 28 - 39.