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Panthera tigris (tiger)
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).
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
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Felis tigris Linnaeus p. 40 |
| 1911 | Felis tigris Thomas p. 135 |
| 1982 | Panthera tigris van den Brink |
| 2006 | Panthera tigris Johnson et al. p. 74 |
| 2017 | Panthera tigris Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser p. 66 |
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Panthera tigris Linnaeus 1758 [tiger]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Collections (24 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Indonesia | Panthera tigris (93522) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Mongolia | Panthera tigris (71060) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Felis tigris (226365) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Madras) | Panthera tigris (228955) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Yunnan) | Panthera tigris (36585) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Shaanxi) | Panthera tigris (37203) | |
| Calabrian - Chibanian | Indonesia (Jawa Timur) | Panthera tigris (93521) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Hubei) | Panthera tigris (234753) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Japan (Aomori) | Panthera tigris (101897) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Panthera tigris (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Laos (Hua Pan) | Panthera tigris (235746) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Capri Island) | Felis tigris (43016) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Panthera tigris (237787) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Panthera tigris (120834) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Felis tigris (235737) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Panthera tigris (13293) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Malaysia (Selangor) | Panthera tigris (235743) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Indonesia | Panthera tigris (93523 93524) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Japan (Aomori) | Panthera tigris (101899) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Taiwan | Panthera tigris (73686) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Heilongjiang) | Panthera tigris (230983) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Panthera tigris (92787) | |
| Holocene | Indonesia (Java) | Panthera tigris (13738) |