Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:41.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Asia", fixed by Thomas (1911a: 135) as "Bengal" [India] .

DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Laos, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and republics of the former USSR. Formerly found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Indonesia (Java and Bali).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: altaica Temminck, 1844; amoyensis Hilzheimer, 1905; amurensis Dode, 1871; balica Schwarz, 1912; corbetti Mazak, 1968; coreensis Brass, 1904; lecoqi Schwarz, 1916; longipilis Fitzinger, 1868; mandshurica Baykov, 1925; mikadoi Satunin, 1915; mongolica Lesson, 1842; nigra Lesson, 1842; regalis Gray, 1842; septentrionalis Satunin, 1904; sondaica Temminck, 1844; striatus Severtzov, 1858; styani Pocock, 1929; sumatrae Pocock, 1929; sumatrana de Blainville, 1839; trabata Schwarz, 1916; virgata liliger, 1815.

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1929), and Mazäk (1979, 1981 [Mammalian Species, 152]). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1929), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvfl (1982c), and Groves (1982a).