Mainland Asian tiger

Panthera tigris tigris

Bengal tiger in Jim Corbett National Park, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Carnivora
Suborder:  | Feliformia
Family:  | Felidae
Subfamily:  | Pantherinae
Genus:  | Panthera
Species:  |

P. tigris

Subspecies:  |

P. t. tigris

Trinomial name
Panthera tigris tigris

(Linnaeus, 1758)

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

* Sunda Island tiger

## References

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1929). "Tigers". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 33 (3−4): 505–541.
3. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ Mazák, V. (1968). "Nouvelle sous-espèce de tigre provenant de l'Asie du sud-est". Mammalia 32 (1): 104.
6. ↑ Template:IUCN

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