| Sumatran tiger | |
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| Sumatran tiger in the Tierpark Berlin | |
Scientific classification
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| 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 |
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| Distribution of the Sumatran tiger | |
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]
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]
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- ^ Cracraft, J.; Feinstein, J.; Vaughn, J. & Helm-Bychowski, K. (1998). "Sorting out tigers (Panthera tigris): Mitochondrial sequences, nuclear inserts, systematics, and conservation genetics" (PDF). Animal Conservation. 1 (2): 139–150. Bibcode:1998AnCon...1..139C. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.1998.tb00021.x. S2CID 34186394.