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The Caspian tiger was a large wild cat that lived in the forests and wetlands around the Caspian Sea region until it went extinct in the mid-20th century. It matters because its disappearance represents the loss of an important predator from that ecosystem and serves as a reminder of how human activities like hunting and habitat destruction can lead to the permanent extinction of wildlife.
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The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea, Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and the Xinjiang region in Western China. It inhabited sparse forests and riverine corridors in this region until the 1970s. It was also present in Southern Russia until the Middle Ages. The Caspian tiger population was regarded as a distinct subspecies and assessed as extinct in 2003.
Results of a phylogeographic analysis evinces that the Caspian and Siberian tiger populations shared a common continuous geographic distribution until the early 19th century.
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1958 in the environmentAnimal taxa named by Carl LinnaeusAutomatic taxobox with unsupported parametersExtinct animals of TurkmenistanExtinct mammals of AsiaFauna of IranFauna of West AsiaMammal extinctions since 1500Mammals described in 1758Mammals of Central AsiaMammals of the Middle EastTaxa named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger