Panthera tigris tigris
Panthera tigris tigris, sometimes referred to as the mainland Asian tiger, 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]
| 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 |
| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera tigris tigris | |
The Caspian tiger 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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- 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. S2CID 84054536.
- 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.
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