Extinct Tiger species
1.The Javan tiger(panthera tigris sondaica)
The Javan tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population, which lived in the Indonesian island of Java until the mid 1970s. It was hunted to extinction and its natural habitat converted for human use. It was one of the three tiger
populations in the Sunda Islands.
2. The Bali tiger(panthera tigris balica)
The Bali tiger was, like the Javan tiger, a Panthera tigris sondaica population which lived in the Indonesian island of Bali. This population has been extinct since the 1950s. A few tiger skulls, skins and bones are preserved in museums. The British Museum in London has the largest collection, with two skins and three skulls; others include the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, the Naturkunde Museum in Stuttgart, the Naturalis museum in Leiden and the Zoological Museum of Bogor, Indonesia, which owns the remnants of the last known Bali tiger. In 1997, a skull emerged in the old collection of the Hungarian National Museum,
and was scientifically studied and properly documented.
3. The Caspian tiger(panthera tigris virgata)
The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population, which lived from eastern Turkey, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea through Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and Xinjiang in western China. It inhabited sparse forests and riverine corridors in this region until the 1970s. This population was assessed as extinct in 2003.
Felis virgata was the scientific name proposed in 1815 by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger for tigers in the Caspian Sea area. It was traditionally recognised as a distinct subspecies, Panthera tigris virgata. However, results of phylogeographic analysis indicate that the Caspian and Siberian tiger populations shared a common continuous geographic distribution until the early 19th century.
1.The Javan tiger(panthera tigris sondaica)
populations in the Sunda Islands.
2. The Bali tiger(panthera tigris balica)
The Bali tiger was, like the Javan tiger, a Panthera tigris sondaica population which lived in the Indonesian island of Bali. This population has been extinct since the 1950s. A few tiger skulls, skins and bones are preserved in museums. The British Museum in London has the largest collection, with two skins and three skulls; others include the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, the Naturkunde Museum in Stuttgart, the Naturalis museum in Leiden and the Zoological Museum of Bogor, Indonesia, which owns the remnants of the last known Bali tiger. In 1997, a skull emerged in the old collection of the Hungarian National Museum,
and was scientifically studied and properly documented.
3. The Caspian tiger(panthera tigris virgata)
The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population, which lived from eastern Turkey, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea through Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and Xinjiang in western China. It inhabited sparse forests and riverine corridors in this region until the 1970s. This population was assessed as extinct in 2003.
Felis virgata was the scientific name proposed in 1815 by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger for tigers in the Caspian Sea area. It was traditionally recognised as a distinct subspecies, Panthera tigris virgata. However, results of phylogeographic analysis indicate that the Caspian and Siberian tiger populations shared a common continuous geographic distribution until the early 19th century.
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