South China tiger
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The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) is an almost extinct subspecies of the tiger. There are now 20-30 of them left in the wild and 60 left in captivity.[2] It is one of the world's ten most endangered animals and the most endangered of the six surviving tiger subspecies. The South China tiger is also known as the Chinese, Amoy, or Xiamen tiger.[3]
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South China tiger | |
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In the Shanghai Zoo | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
Genus: | Panthera |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | P. t. tigris |
Trinomial name | |
Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
South China Tiger natural habitat (black) | |
Synonyms | |
formerly P. t. amoyensis (Hilzheimer, 1905) |
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