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3 Characteristics. Toggle Characteristics subsection. 3.1 Coat. ... The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia. It ...
Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger. [1] It was subordinated to the genus Panthera by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929. Bengal is the traditional type locality of the species and the nominate subspecies Panthera tigris tigris. [2] The validity of several tiger subspecies in continental Asia was ...
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.
The Indochinese tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to Southeast Asia. [1] This population occurs in Myanmar and Thailand.In 2011, the population was thought to comprise 342 individuals, including 85 in Myanmar and 20 in Vietnam, with the largest population unit surviving in Thailand, estimated at 189 to 252 individuals during the period 2009 to 2014.
The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China [1] and possibly North Korea. [2] It once ranged throughout the Korean Peninsula , but currently inhabits mainly the Sikhote-Alin mountain region in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East.
Felis tigris sondaicus was the scientific name proposed by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1844 for a tiger specimen from Java. [5]Panthera tigris sumatrae was proposed by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1929, who described a skin and a skull of a tiger zoological specimen from Sumatra. [6]
Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger. [6] Panthera tigris corbetti was proposed by Vratislav Mazák in 1968 for the tiger subspecies in Southeast Asia. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Panthera tigris jacksoni was proposed in 2004 as a subspecies as a genetic analysis indicated differences in mtDNA and micro-satellite ...
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) Tiger ( Panthera tigris ) The term " big cat " is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera , namely the tiger , lion , jaguar , leopard , and snow leopard , as well as the non- pantherine cheetah and cougar .