Panthera tigris tigris
Appearance
Panthera tigris tigris | |
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Bengal tiger in Ranthambhore National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
Genus: | Panthera |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | P. t. tigris
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Trinomial name | |
Panthera tigris tigris |
Panthera tigris tigris is the native tiger subspecies of mainland Asia comprising the following tiger populations:[1]
- Bengal tiger — occurs in the Indian Subcontinent from India, Nepal and Bhutan to Bangladesh.[2]
- Siberian tiger — inhabits Northeast Asia, from eastern Siberia to Northeast China,[3] and possibly North Korea[4]
- South China tiger — occurs in southern China[5]
- Indochinese tiger — inhabits forests in Indochina,[6] save for the Malayan Peninsula
- Malayan tiger — inhabits Peninsular Malaysia[1]
It had another population:
- Caspian tiger (extinct by 2003) — inhabited Western and Central Asia[3]
A whole-genome sequencing analysis of 32 tiger specimens supported six monophyletic tiger clades and indicated that the most recent common ancestor lived about 110,000 years ago.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ a b Mazák, V. (1981). "Panthera tigris" (PDF). Mammalian Species. 152 (152): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3504004. JSTOR 3504004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ Rak, K. C.; Miquelle, D. G.; Pikunov, D. G. (1998). A survey of tigers and leopards and prey resources in the Paektusan area, North Korea, in winter (Report). Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ Hilzheimer, M. (1905). "Über einige Tigerschädel aus der Straßburger zoologischen Sammlung". Zoologischer Anzeiger (28): 594–599.
- ^ Mazák, V. (1968). "Nouvelle sous-espèce de tigre provenant de l'Asie du sud-est". Mammalia. 32 (1): 104. doi:10.1515/mamm.1968.32.1.104.
- ^ Liu, Y.-C.; Sun, X.; Driscoll, C.; Miquelle, D. G.; Xu, X.; Martelli, P.; Uphyrkina, O.; Smith, J. L. D.; O’Brien, S. J.; Luo, S.-J. (2018). "Genome-wide evolutionary analysis of natural history and adaptation in the world's tigers". Current Biology. 28 (23): 3840–3849. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.019. PMID 30482605.