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Caspian_tiger
Caspian tiger
English
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A Caspian tiger
Noun
Caspian tiger (plural Caspian tigers)
- An extinct tiger subspecies, Panthera tigris virgata, that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabited the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through Central Asia into the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms
- Hyrcanian tiger
- Turan tiger
Translations
extinct tiger
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