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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 ...
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]
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 study reveals that the snow leopard and the tiger are sister species, while the lion, leopard, and jaguar are more closely related to each other. The tiger and snow leopard diverged from the ancestral big cats approximately 3.9 Ma. The tiger then evolved into a unique species towards the end of the Pliocene epoch, approximately 3.2 Ma. The ...
In 1975, Douchan Gersi claimed to have seen a tiger in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. He took two photographs of the animal. [14] These photos depict a tiger, but the authenticity of the photographs was doubted, [1] and its origin remains unclear. [5] It might have been an escaped captive animal. [14]