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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), Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. imperialis, P. issiodorensis, P. schaubi, P. crassidens

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
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—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