abstract:The Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) is an extinct tiger subspecies that inhabited the Indonesian island of Java until the mid-1970s. It was one of the three subspecies limited to islands.
In the 20thcenturythree of the eightsub-species of tigerbecame extinct - the Balinese in 1937, the Caspianinthe 1950s and most recentlytheJavaninthe 1980s.