Sumatran tiger
Tiger subspecies endemic to Sumatra / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris sondaica on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.[1][2] It is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct.[3]
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Sumatran tiger | |
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Sumatran tiger in the Tierpark Berlin | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
Genus: | Panthera |
Species: | P. tigris |
Subspecies: | P. t. sondaica |
Population: | Sumatran tiger |
Distribution of the Sumatran tiger |
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Sequences from complete mitochondrial genes of 34 tigers support the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers are diagnostically distinct from mainland subspecies.[4] In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group revised felid taxonomy and recognizes the living and extinct tiger populations in Indonesia as P. t. sondaica.[1]