abstract:The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata), also known as the Hyrcanian tiger and the Turan tiger, is an extinct tiger subspecies that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and used to inhabit the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and east through Central Asia into the Takla Makan desert of Xinjiang, China. There are no individuals in captivity.
In the 20thcenturythree of the eightsub-species of tigerbecame extinct - the Balinese in 1937, the Caspianinthe 1950s and most recentlythe Javan inthe 1980s.