tiger

Summary

tiger is a taxon^[1]. tiger ranks in the top 0.0092% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,910 views/month, #18 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• tiger's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• tiger is classified at the rank of species^[4].
• tiger's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Endangered status^[5].
• tiger belongs to the parent taxon Panthera^[6].
• tiger's scientific name is Panthera tigris^[7].
• tiger is a type of big cat^[8].
• tiger's Commons category is recorded as Panthera tigris^[9].
• tiger's color is recorded as orange^[10].
• tiger's color is recorded as black^[11].
• tiger's color is recorded as white^[12].
• tiger's Unicode character is recorded as 🐅^[13].
• tiger's Unicode character is recorded as 🐯^[14].
• tiger's temporal range start is recorded as Pleistocene^[15].
• tiger's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tigers^[16].
• tiger's Commons gallery is recorded as Panthera tigris^[17].
• tiger's main food source is recorded as ungulate^[18].
• tiger's main food source is recorded as monkey^[19].
• tiger's main food source is recorded as Phasianidae^[20].
• tiger's main food source is recorded as rabbits and hares^[21].
• tiger's main food source is recorded as fish^[22].
• tiger's depicted by is recorded as Tiger with stone intarsia^[23].
• tiger's depicted by is recorded as Tiger roaring^[24].
• tiger's depicted by is recorded as Fight between a lion and a tiger^[25].
• tiger's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[26].
• tiger's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[27].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, tiger is Panthera tigris^[7]. tiger is classified at the rank of species^[4]. tiger belongs to the parent taxon Panthera^[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Tigre'}^[28], {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'Tigre'}^[29], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Tiger'}^[30], {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'tiikeri'}^[31], {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '호랑이'}^[32], and {'lang': 'zh-cn', 'text': '虎'}^[33].

Identifiers

tiger's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9694^[34]. tiger's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 328674^[35]. tiger's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5219416^[36]. tiger's ITIS TSN is recorded as 183805^[37].

Discovery and Description

Things named for tiger include Four Asian Tigers^[38], a geopolitical group^[39]; Tigger^[40], an anthropomorphic tiger^[41]; Mac OS X Tiger^[42], an operating system^[43], founded in 2005^[44]; Tigr^[45], a combat vehicle model^[46]; tiger parenting^[47], a means^[48]; Tiger Force^[49], an United States special operations forces^[50], in United States^[51], founded in 1965^[52]; Auburn Tigers^[53], a university and college sports club^[54], in United States^[55]; and French destroyer Tigre^[56], a destroyer^[57].

Why It Matters

tiger ranks in the top 0.0092% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,910 views/month, #18 of 195,241).^[2] tiger has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[58] tiger is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[59]

Entities named for tiger include Four Asian Tigers^[38], a geopolitical group^[39]; Tigger^[40], an anthropomorphic tiger^[41]; Mac OS X Tiger^[42], an operating system^[43], founded in 2005^[44]; Tigr^[45], a combat vehicle model^[46]; tiger parenting^[47], a means^[48]; and Tiger Force^[49], an United States special operations forces^[50], in United States^[51], founded in 1965^[52].