Bengal tiger

Bengal tiger
Male in Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India
Female, about 2½ years old, at Kanha
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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
Trinomial name
Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Range of Bengal tiger in red
Synonyms
P. t. fluviatilis P. t. montanus P. t. regalis P. t. striatus

The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris ) is a tiger subspecies native to the Indian subcontinent. It lives in Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and northern India. It is the National animal of Bangladesh.

The tiger's habitat includes tropical moist evergreen forests, tropical dry forests, tropical and subtropical moist deciduous forests, mangroves, subtropical and temperate upland forests, and alluvial grasslands.

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