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Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) [2] Population Description Image Bengal tiger formerly P. t. tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) [2] This population inhabits the Indian subcontinent. [17] The Bengal tiger has shorter fur than tigers further north, [8] with a light tawny to orange-red colouration, [8] [18] and relatively long and narrow nostrils. [19]
In 1929, the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger under the genus Panthera using the scientific name Panthera tigris. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group revised felid taxonomy and now recognizes the Javan tiger together with the Sumatran tiger and the Bali tigers ...
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 ...
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 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. [1] [2] All cats descend from the Felidae family, sharing similar musculature, cardiovascular systems, skeletal frames, and behaviour.
The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress, or female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the opposite hybrid called the tigon (of a male tiger and a lioness), and is the largest of all known extant felines.
The Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris [NCBI:txid74535]) [7] is the species found all across the country except Thar desert region, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Kutch region. [8] These can attain the largest body size among all the Felidae, [6]: 29 and therefore are called Royal Bengal Tigers.
The South China tiger is listed as critically endangered on China's Red List of Vertebrates (as Panthera tigris amoyensis). [3] The non-governmental organisation Save China's Tigers, with support of China's State Forestry Administration, has developed a plan to reintroduce captive-born South China tigers into large enclosures in southern China ...