South China tiger

South China tiger
	Tiger 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:	P. tigris;
Subspecies:	P. t. tigris
Population:	South China tiger
	Distribution of the South China tiger
Synonyms
	Panthera tigris subsp. amoyensis (Hilzheimer, 1905)

The South China tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to southern China.^[2] The population mainly inhabited the Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the China's Red List of Vertebrates^[3] and is possibly extinct in the wild since no wild individual has been recorded since the late 1980s.^[4] In the late 1990s, continued survival was considered unlikely because of low prey density, widespread habitat degradation and fragmentation, and other environmental issues in China.^[5] In the fur trade, it used to be called Amoy tiger.^[6]

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