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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] The skull and pelage pattern of tiger specimens from Java and Sumatra do not differ significantly. [7] [8] P. t. sondaica is therefore considered the valid name for the living and extinct ...
Panthera tigris soloensis, known as the Ngandong tiger, [3] is an extinct subspecies of the modern tiger species. It inhabited the Sundaland region of Indonesia during the Pleistocene epoch. [ 4 ]
The Javan tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population native to the Indonesian island of Java.It was one of the three tiger populations that colonized the Sunda Islands during the last glacial period 110,000–12,000 years ago.
Panthera tigris trinilensis, known as the Trinil tiger, is an extinct tiger subspecies dating from about 1.2 million years ago that was found at the locality of Trinil, Java, Indonesia. [1] The fossil remains are now stored in the Dubois Collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands.
The Bali tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population on the Indonesian island of Bali [2] which has been extinct since the 1950s. [1] It was formerly regarded as a distinct tiger subspecies with the scientific name Panthera tigris balica, which had been assessed as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2008. [1]
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]
The Bornean tiger or Borneo tiger is possibly an extinct tiger population that lived on the island of Borneo in prehistoric times. [1] [2] [3] Two partial bone fragments suggest that the tiger was certainly present in Borneo during the Late Pleistocene. [4] A live Bornean tiger has not been conclusively recorded. [3] [5] [6]
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.