Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Felidae Rank Subspecies | Phylum Chordata Order Carnivora Genus Panthera | |
Similar Ngandong tiger, Trinil tiger, Panthera palaeosinensis, Panthera schreuderi, Panthera zdanskyi | ||
The Wanhsien tiger (Panthera tigris acutidens), is an extinct subspecies of tiger that lived in Asia from the late Pliocene until the middle Pleistocene. They were driven to extinction in the islands of Indonesia by another tiger subspecies, the Trinil tiger (P. t. trinilensis) and in Asia by yet another subspecies, the South China tiger (P. t. amoyensis)
The Wanhsien tiger is the earliest known extinct tiger subspecies, and populated a huge majority of Asia. It is larger than Siberian tigers, it grew to sizes of 2.3 m (7.5 ft) in length, 120 cm (47 in) in height, and 200 to 350 kg (440 to 770 lb) in weight.
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