Subspecies
Etymology
Felids
Genus Panthera (great cats)
Tigers (Panthera tigris)
Symbolism, myths, and legends
Art and Literature
Historic notes and events (from Thapar 2004 unless otherwise noted)
Popular cultural references
Describer: Linnaeus (1758)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae - all modern cats
Subfamily: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species: Panthera tigris - tiger
Subspecies: P. t. altaica - Amur tiger (a.k.a. Siberian tiger)
Subspecies: P. t. amoyensis - South China tiger (possibly extinct in wild)
Subspecies: P. t. corbetti - Indochinese tiger
Subspecies: P. t. jacksoni - Malayan tiger
Subspecies: P. t. sumatrae - Sumatran tiger
Subspecies: P. t. tigris - Bengal tiger
Subspecies: P. t. balica - Bali tiger (extinct)
Subspecies: P. t. sondaica - Javan tiger (extinct)
Subspecies: P. t. virgata - Caspian tiger (extinct)
Corbett (1944)
Davis et al. (2010)
Driscoll et al. (2009)
Jackson (1999)
Johnson, Eizirik et al. (2006)
Kitchener (1999)
Kitchener and Yamaguchi (2010)
Luo et al. (2004)
Luo et al. (2010)
Mazák (1981)
Mazák and Groves (2006)
Nowell and Jackson (1996)
O'Brien and Johnson (2005, 2007)
Seidensticker (1987)
Sunquist et al. (1999)
Thapar (2004)
Tilson (2004)