Panthera tigris virgata (Illiger, 1815)
Caspian tiger, Hyrcanian tiger, Mazandaran tiger, Persian tiger, Turan tiger, Turanian tiger, Central Asian tiger, Turkestan tiger, Transoxiana tiger, Occidental tiger, Chinese Turkestan tiger (as lecoqi), Babr
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: septentrionalis (Satunin, 1904); trabata (Schwarz, 1916); lecoqi (Schwarz, 1916)
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: 1967 (Afghanistan); 1970's or 1980's?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Caspian Sea area
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: Berlin Zoo 1899.
Above: colourised photo of a Caspian tiger in the Berlin Zoo, c.1899. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Above: Caspian tiger killed in Northern Iran, early 1940s. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
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