Combinations

• Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758: 41 [original combination]

Synonyms

• Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858: 386 [renaming of Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758]
• Tigris regalis Gray, 1867: 263 [renaming of Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758]

Vernacular names

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp  DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 : 41.
• Gray, J. E. 1867. Notes on the skulls of the cats (Felidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 258–277.
• Severtzov, N. 1858. Notice sur la classification multisériale des Carnivores, specialement des Félidés et les études de zoologie générale qui s'y rattachent. Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée, ser. 2., 10: 385–393.

Additional references

• Luo, S. J., Kim, J. H., Johnson, W. E., Walt, J. vd, & Martenson, J. 2004. Phylogeography and Genetic Ancestry of Tigers (Panthera tigris). PLoS Biology 2(12): e442. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020442

• Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, Ch., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting, A., Yamaguchi, N., Abramov, A.V., Christiansen, P., Driscoll, C., Duckworth, J.W., Johnson, W., Luo, S.-J., Meijaard, E., O’Donoghue, P., Sanderson, J., Seymour, K., Bruford, M., Groves, C., Hoffmann, M., Nowell, K., Timmons, Z. & Tobe, S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/ SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11: 80 pp. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Links

• Panthera tigris in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

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