What are the Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species of a white tiger (snow tiger)?
There is not technically any tiger called a ‘snow tiger’. The name could only really be applied to the Siberian tiger, the only subspecies which lives in snowy conditions. However, this subspecies is never white. White tigers are individuals of the Bengal subspecies with a genetic condition called leucism, which causes reduced pigmentation. They are NOT a separate species or subspecies to normally coloured tigers. The Bengal subspecies is the only one in which lecusim is known to occur. This is the classification of the tiger: Kingdom – Animalia Phylum – Chordata Class – Mammalia Order – Carnivora Family – Felidae Genus – Panthera Species – tigris If you wished to show which subspecies of tiger you’re talking about, for the Siberian tiger you would add: Subspecies – altaica Or for the Bengal tiger: Subspecies – tigris Random Panther – you missed one living and one extinct subspecies from your list. The living is the Sumatran tiger (P.t. sumatrae), and the extinct is the Caspian tiger (
