This article is about a tiger population. For Japanese Imperial Army general who had the nickname "Malayan Tiger" or "Tiger of Malaya", see Tomoyuki Yamashita. For the football team which has the nickname "Harimau Malaya", see Malaysia national football team.
Malayan tiger
A Malayan tiger at Malaysia National Zoo
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia)[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
Population:
Malayan tiger
Range of the Malayan tiger
The Malayan tiger is a tiger from a specific population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to Peninsular Malaysia.[2] This population inhabits the southern and central parts of the Malay Peninsula, and has been classified as critically endangered. As of April 2014[update], the population was estimated at 80–120 mature individuals, with a continuing downward trend.[3]
In the Malay language, the tiger is called harimau, also abbreviated to rimau.[4] It has also been known as the southern Indochinese tiger, to further distinguish it from the Indochinese tiger population to the north in Myanmar and Thailand, which differ genetically from this population.[5]
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