Panthera tigris (Linnaeus 1758)

[Felis] tigris Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 41.

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

Vernacular Names: Tiger.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. tigris Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. altaica Temminck 1844

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. amoyensis Hilzheimer 1905

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. balica Schwarz 1912

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. corbetti Mazak 1968

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. sondaica Temminck 1844

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. sumatrae Pocock 1929

Subspecies Panthera tigris subsp. virgata Illiger 1815

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra only), Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Russia, Vietnam. Recently extinct in: Afghanistan, Georgia, Bali, Java, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extict as P. t. balica, P. t. sondaica, and P. t. virgata, Critically Endangered as P. t. altaica, P. t. amoyensis, and P. t. sumatrae, otherwise Endangered.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Mazák (1981). Revised by Pocock (1929) and Mazák (1979, 1981). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1929), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982 c), and Groves (1982 a).