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The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata)

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The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata)

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06-24-2019, 11:12 PM ( This post was last modified: 10-02-2019, 11:06 PM by BorneanTiger )

As mentioned here, just as Siberian tigers were temporarily distinguished as Amur (Panthera tigris longipilis) and Korean tigers (Panthera tigris coreensis), Caspian tigers were temporarily distinguished, with one 'subspecies' being the Balkhash tiger (Panthera tigris trabata) of Central Asia (Lake Balkhash is in eastern Kazakhstan), but then these classifications were rejected by Heptner and Sludskiy (pages 130–137: https://archive.org/stream/mammalsofsov2...0/mode/2up), who asserted that the Soviet Union (a former federation that included countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and Georgia) had only 2 'forms' (which a later study would prove to be rather closely related: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0004125), the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) and the Turanian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata, with 'Turan' meaning the land to the northeast of Iran (https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/e...*-COM_0206), that is Central Asia, which the Caspian tiger inhabited, so the "Turanian tiger" is the Caspian tiger):

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RE: The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) - BorneanTiger - 06-24-2019, 11:12 PM
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