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There were nine subspecies of Tiger in the world: the Siberian Tiger, the South China Tiger, Indochinese Tiger, the Sumatran Tiger, the Bengal Tiger, the Malayan Tiger, the Balinese Tiger, the Javan Tiger, and the Caspian Tiger or Persian Tiger. Three of these nine subspecies of tiger have gone extinct in the last century and one of them is believed to become extinct in the near future because of human influences.[4] The historical range of these nine subspecies ranges from Russia to Siberia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, China and southeast Asia, and the Indonesian islands. Today though, with a third of the subspecies extinct, their range has greatly diminished.
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A Bengal Tiger (P. tigris tigris) in India's Bandhavgarh National Park. | |
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Species: | P. tigris |
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Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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P. t. bengalensis | |
Historical distribution of tigers (pale yellow) and 2006 (green).[2] | |
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Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858 |