Panthera tigris

Familia: Felidae
Subfamilia: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species: Panthera tigris
Subspecies: P. t. tigris – P. t. sondaica – †P. t. acutidens – †P. t. oxygnatha – †P. t. soloensis – †P. t. trinilensis

Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Type locality: "Asia"; "India proper, and particularly Bengal" [Thomas, 1911: 135]

• Felis tigris (protonym) 41 [Protonym]
• Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858: 386
• Tigris regalis Gray, 1867: 263

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL p. 41 BHL Reference page. 
• Severtzov, N. 1858. Notice sur la classification multisériale des Carnivores, spécialement des Félidés, et les études de zoologie générale qui s'y rattachent. Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 2^e Ser. 10: 385–393. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the Skulls of the Cats (Felidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 258–277. BHL Reference page. 

• Thomas, O. 1911. The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(1): 120–158. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x BHL Reference page. 
• Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, Ch., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting, A., Yamaguchi, N., Abramov, A.V., Christiansen, P., Driscoll, C., Duckworth, J.W., Johnson, W., Luo, S.-J., Meijaard, E., O’Donoghue, P., Sanderson, J., Seymour, K., Bruford, M., Groves, C., Hoffmann, M., Nowell, K., Timmons, Z. & Tobe, S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/ SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11: 80 pp. PDF. Reference page. 
• Luo, S. J., Kim, J. H., Johnson, W. E., Walt, J. vd, & Martenson, J. 2004. Phylogeography and Genetic Ancestry of Tigers (Panthera tigris). PLoS Biology 2(12): e442. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020442

• Panthera tigris in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• IUCN: Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Endangered)

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