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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]
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 members of the Panthera genus are classified as some level of threatened by the IUCN Red List: the lion, [28] leopard [5] and snow leopard [29] are categorized as Vulnerable; the tiger is listed as Endangered; [30] and the jaguar is listed as Near Threatened. [31] Cheetahs are also classified as Vulnerable, [32] and the cougar is of Least ...
Panthera tigris tigris [30] Indian peafowl (national bird) Pavo cristatus [31] Ganges river dolphin (national aquatic animal) Platanista gangetica [32] Indian elephant (national heritage animal) Elephas maximus indicus [33] Indonesia: Komodo dragon (national animal) Varanus komodoensis [34] Javan hawk-eagle (national bird) Nisaetus bartelsi [34]
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.
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. [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 ...
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 ]