Bengali tigers
| Bengal tiger | |
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| In the Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. tigris |
| Subspecies: | P. t. tigris |
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Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Range of Bengal tiger in red | |
| Synonyms | |
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P. t. fluviatilis, P. t. montanus, P. t. regalis, and P. t. striatus |
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P. t. fluviatilis, P. t. montanus, P. t. regalis, and P. t. striatus
The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most numerous of the tiger subspecies. By 2011, the total population was estimated at fewer than 2,500 individuals with a decreasing trend. None of the Tiger Conservation Landscapes within the Bengal tiger's range is considered large enough to support an effective population size of 250 adult individuals. Since 2010, it is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. An example of charismatic megafauna, the Bengal tiger is the most familiar tiger subspecies, as well as the second largest subspecies, after the Siberian tiger. By 2010, Bengal tiger populations in India were estimated at 1,706–1,909. As of 2014, they had reputedly increased to an estimated 2,226 individuals.
Bengal tigers number around 440 in Bangladesh and 163–253 in Nepal. Prior censuses placed the tiger population in Bhutan at around 65–75 individuals. In 2015, it was estimated that 103 Bengal tigers were living in the country.
The Bengal, Caspian, and Siberian tigers rank among the biggest cats. The Bengal tiger is the national animal of both India and Bangladesh.
Bengal is traditionally fixed as the typical locality for the binomen Panthera tigris, to which the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the Bengal tiger in 1929 under the trinomen Panthera tigris tigris. Eventually, felid taxonomy got revised in 2017, and P. t. tigris is now considered the nominate tiger subspecies of mainland Asia, comprising the Bengal, Caspian, Siberian, Malayan, Indochinese and South Chinese tigers, separate from the Sunda tiger (P. t. sondaica).
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