Locating specimens of extinct tiger {Panthera tigris) subspecies: Javan tiger (P. t sondaicd), Balinese tiger (P. t balica, and Caspian tiger (P. t. virgata), including previously unpublished specimens
Natural History Museum;
University of Oxford;
Bavarian State Collection for Zoology;
Sweden;
Abingdon;
Muenchhausenstrasse 21;
Department of Zoology;
Frederick;
1;
Abingdon Road;
Bacross utca 13;
Box 50007;
Bronx;
SW7 5BD;
London;
Stockholm;
Russia;
Germany;
Hungary;
SE-104 05;
Cromwell Road;
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity;
UK;
MD 21702-1201;
Recanati-Kaplan Centre;
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit;
Great Cats Program;
Wildlife Conservation Society;
81247 Munich;
55 rue Buffon;
Swedish Museum of Natural History;
Tubney House;
National Museum of Natural History;
USA;
Hungarian Natural History Museum;
Zoological Institute;
Russian Academy of Sciences;
2300 Southern Blvd.;
NY 10460;
Universitetskaya Nab.;
National Cancer Institute;
H-1088 Budapest;
75005 Paris;
France;
Tubney;
199034 Saint Petersburg;
OX 13 5QL;
关键词：
conservation;
museum;
Central Asia;
Indonesia;
Sunda Islands;
期刊名称：
Mammal study
i s s n：
1343-4152
年卷期：
2013 年
38 卷
3 期
页 码：
187-198
页 码：
摘 要：
Recent advances in multivariate statistics, and in ancient DNA techniques, have greatly increased understanding of tiger phylogeography. However, regardless of advances in analytical methodology, researchers will continue to need access to specimens for morphological measurements and sampling for genetic analysis. The tiger has become increasingly endangered, and out of the nine putative tiger subspecies, three (Javan, Balinese, and Caspian) have become extinct in the last 100 years, leaving the specimens kept in natural history collections as the only materials available for research. Frustratingly little information is widely available concerning the specimens of these extinct tiger subspecies. We conducted an extensive search for specimens of extinct tiger subspecies, and also developed a simple on-site method to assign unprovenanced and probable Indonesian specimens to either Javan/Balinese or Sumatran subspecies. We located a total of 88 Javan, 11 Balinese, and 46 Caspian tigers, including seven new Javan tigers, and three Balinese tigers that were not widely known previously. These specimens are critical for research in order to understand the intraspecific phylogeny and evolutionary history of the tiger.
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