Teeger

Teeger; Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Present PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Female Bengal tiger (P. t. tigris) at the Tadoba Andhari Teeger Reserve, Indie
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Faimily:	Felidae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. tigris
Binomial name
	Panthera tigris; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspeshies
	P. t. tigris P. t. sondaica
	Tiger's historical range in aboot 1850 (pale yellae) an in 2006 (in green).
Synonyms
	Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858; Tigris regalis Gray, 1867;

The teeger (Panthera tigris) also kent tiger, is a member o the Felidae faimlie; the maist muckle o the fower "muckle cats" in the genus Panthera. Native tae maist o eastren an soothren Asie, the teeger is an apex hunter an an obligate cairnivore. Raxin up tae 4 metre (13 ft) in tot lenth an weein up tae 300 kilogram (660 poonds), the lairger teeger subspecies is compearable in bouk tae the maist muckle extinct felids. Aside fae thair great bouk an pouer, thair maist recogneezable featurs is the paitern o daurk vertical strips that owerlays naur-white tae reiddish-orange fur, wi lichter unnerpairts. The lairgest subspecies o teeger is the Siberian teeger.

References

↑ Goodrich, J.; Lynam, A.; Miquelle, D.; Wibisono, H.; Kawanishi, K.; Pattanavibool, A.; Htun, S.; Tempa, T.; Karki, J.; Jhala, Y. & Karanth, U. (2015). "Panthera tigris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T15955A50659951.
↑ Linnaeus, C. (1758). "Felis tigris". Caroli Linnæi Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Laitin). Tomus I (decima, reformata ed.). Holmiae: Laurentius Salvius. p. 41.
↑ Dinerstein, E.; Loucks, C.; Wikramanayake, E.; Ginsberg, J.; Sanderson, E.; Seidensticker, J.; Forrest, J.; Bryja, G.; Heydlauff, A. (2007). "The Fate of Wild Tigers" (PDF). BioScience. 57 (6): 508–514. doi:10.1641/B570608.

[IUCN-1] Goodrich, J.; Lynam, A.; Miquelle, D.; Wibisono, H.; Kawanishi, K.; Pattanavibool, A.; Htun, S.; Tempa, T.; Karki, J.; Jhala, Y. & Karanth, U. (2015). "Panthera tigris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T15955A50659951.

[Linn1758-2] Linnaeus, C. (1758). "Felis tigris". Caroli Linnæi Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Laitin). Tomus I (decima, reformata ed.). Holmiae: Laurentius Salvius. p. 41.

[dinerstein07-3] Dinerstein, E.; Loucks, C.; Wikramanayake, E.; Ginsberg, J.; Sanderson, E.; Seidensticker, J.; Forrest, J.; Bryja, G.; Heydlauff, A. (2007). "The Fate of Wild Tigers" (PDF). BioScience. 57 (6): 508–514. doi:10.1641/B570608.

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Taxon identifiers
Panthera tigris	Wikidata: Q19939 Wikispecies: Panthera tigris ADW: Panthera_tigris BioLib: 2045 BOLD: 73508 ECOS: 1765 EoL: 328674 EPPO: PNTHTI Fossilworks: 90651 GBIF: 5219416 iNaturalist: 41967 IRMNG: 10762914 ITIS: 183805 IUCN: 15955 MSW: 14000259 NBN: NHMSYS0000377066 NCBI: 9694 Species+: 6047 TSA: 12803
Felis tigris	Wikidata: Q41083521 EoL: 47054053 GBIF: 4969819 ZooBank: CB08F90C-6992-4001-A173-117D95630082