The Bengal
tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most numerous tiger subspecies.
Its populations have been estimated at 1,706–1,909 in India, 440 in Bangladesh,
163–253 in Nepal
and 67–81 in Bhutan.
Since 2010, it has been classified as endangered by the IUCN. The total population
is estimated at fewer than 2,500 individuals with a decreasing trend, and none
of the Tiger Conservation Landscapes within the Bengal tiger's range is
large enough to support an effective population size of 250 adult individuals.Bengal is
traditionally fixed as the typical
locality for the binomial Panthera tigris, to which
the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the
Bengal tiger in 1929 under the trinomial Panthera tigris tigris.
It is the national
animal of both India and Bangladesh.
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