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Panthera tigris

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Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:41.

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

DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Laos, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and republics of the former USSR. Formerly found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Indonesia (Java and Bali).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: altaica Temminck, 1844; amoyensis Hilzheimer, 1905; amurensis Dode, 1871; balica Schwarz, 1912; corbetti Mazak, 1968; coreensis Brass, 1904; lecoqi Schwarz, 1916; longipilis Fitzinger, 1868; mandshurica Baykov, 1925; mikadoi Satunin, 1915; mongolica Lesson, 1842; nigra Lesson, 1842; regalis Gray, 1842; septentrionalis Satunin, 1904; sondaica Temminck, 1844; striatus Severtzov, 1858; styani Pocock, 1929; sumatrae Pocock, 1929; sumatrana de Blainville, 1839; trabata Schwarz, 1916; virgata liliger, 1815.

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1929), and Mazäk (1979, 1981 [Mammalian Species, 152]). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1929), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvfl (1982c), and Groves (1982a).

Notes

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 298-299, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (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. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • 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.
  • Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.
  • Severtzov, N. 1858. Notice sur la classification multiseriale des carnivores, specialement des Felides, et les etudes de zoologie generale qui s'y rattachent. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, Pure et Appliquee (2), 241 - 246, 385 - 393, 9: 387 - 391, 433 - 439; 10: 3 - 8, 145 - 150, 193 - 196.
  • Pocock, R. I. 1929. Tigers. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 33 (3): 505 - 541.
  • Mazak, V. 1979. Der tiger, Panthera tigris. Die Neue Brehm-Bucherei, 356: 1 - 228.
  • Mazak, V. 1981. Panthera tigris. Mammalian Species, 152: 1 - 8.
  • 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.