Caspian tiger

A Caspian tiger

Meaning

Noun

  • 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.

Related

Similar words

  • Hyrcanian tiger
  • Turan tiger

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