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SPECIES Panthera tigris

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 41.
Common Name:Tiger
Type Locality:"Asia", fixed by Thomas (1911a:135) as "Bengal" [India].
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.
Status: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.
Comments: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 (1982c), and Groves (1982a).
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SUBSPECIES tigris

SUBSPECIES altaica

SUBSPECIES amoyensis

SUBSPECIES balica

SUBSPECIES corbetti

SUBSPECIES sondaica

SUBSPECIES sumatrae

SUBSPECIES virgata

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