Panthera tigris
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Felidae
Panthera
Panthera tigris

description: <i>Panthera tigris</i> (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: <i>altaica</i> Temminck, 1844; <i>amoyensis</i> Hilzheimer, 1905; <i>amurensis</i> Dode, 1871; <i>balica</i> Schwarz, 1912; <i>corbetti</i> Mazak, 1968; <i>coreensis</i> Brass, 1904; <i>lecoqi</i> Schwarz, 1916; <i>longipilis</i> Fitzinger, 1868; <i>mandshurica</i> Baykov, 1925; <i>mikadoi</i> Satunin, 1915; <i>mongolica</i> Lesson, 1842; <i>nigra</i> Lesson, 1842; <i>regalis</i> Gray, 1842; <i>septentrionalis</i> Satunin, 1904; <i>sondaica</i> Temminck, 1844; <i>striatus</i> Severtzov, 1858; <i>styani</i> Pocock, 1929; <i>sumatrae</i> Pocock, 1929; <i>sumatrana</i> de Blainville, 1839; <i>trabata</i> Schwarz, 1916; <i>virgata</i> liliger, 1815. COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1929), and Mazäk (1979, 1981 [Mammalian Species, 152]). Placed in <i>Panthera</i> by Pocock (1929), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvfl (1982c), and Groves (1982a).
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on pages 298-299, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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