Malayan tiger
subspecies of mammal
The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is a subspecies of the tiger that was discovered in 2004. People used to think they were Indo-Chinese tigers, But now they have their own subspecies. They have the same length and weight as the Indo-Chinese tiger. They live in southern Malaysia and they are an endangered species.
| Malayan tiger | |
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| A Malayan tiger at the Cincinnati Zoo, the United States of America | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
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| Subspecies: | P. t. tigris
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| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
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| Range of the Malayan tiger | |
| Synonyms | |
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formerly P. t. jacksoni Luo et al., 2004 | |
Related pages
change- Bali tiger
- Bengal tiger
- Caspian tiger
- Indochinese tiger
- Javan tiger
- Ngandong tiger
- Siberian tiger
- Sumatran tiger
- South China tiger
- Trinil tiger
- Wanhsien tiger
