Caspian tiger

English

A Caspian tiger

Noun

Caspian tiger (plural Caspian tigers)

1. Any of an extinct race of Panthera tigris tigris, recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabiting 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.

Synonyms

• Hyrcanian tiger
• Turan tiger

Translations

extinct tiger

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裡海虎 / 里海虎 (lǐhǎilhǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kaspiantiikeri
• Persian: ببر مازندران (babr-e mâzandarân), ببر هیرکانی (babr-e hirkâni)
• Portuguese: tigre do Cáspio m
• Russian: закавка́зский тигр m (zakavkázskij tigr), тура́нский тигр m (turánskij tigr)