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Panthera tigris (tiger)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

Taxonomy
Felis tigris was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Panthera tigris by van den Brink (1982), Johnson et al. (2006) and Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Felis tigris Linnaeus p. 40
1911Felis tigris Thomas p. 135
1982Panthera tigris van den Brink
2006Panthera tigris Johnson et al. p. 74
2017Panthera tigris Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser p. 66

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderFeliformiaKretzoi 1945
superfamilyFeloideaHay 1930
familyFelidae
subfamilyFelinaeTrouessart 1885
genusPantheraOken 1816
speciestigris()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Panthera tigris Linnaeus 1758 [tiger]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available