
Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
DISTRIBUTION
Less than a century ago, the tiger occupied
a range extending from eastern Turkey and the southern fringes of the Caspian Sea eastward across Central Asia to the Sea of Okhotsk, and south through the Indian subcontinent (not Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali. The range has now diminished and the tiger exists only in scattered populations from India to Southeast Asia and Sumatra, and a few tigers still survive in China and the Russian Far East.8,12,14,19
Range States: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, N Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Distribution of Tiger. Present range: black. Historic range: shading. Source: simplified after Nowell & Jackson 13
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