cheetah N tigers

[priyawarekar]

Are cheetah also from panthera group & if not which group does it fall in?I also want to know how many species of tigers are left in the wildand also there names scientific s well as common.I know about Siberian N Bengal tigers are these the name of there species or they are called so because they are found there      Thank You              

[New Forester]

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is in a separate subfamily, the Acinonychinae, so it's neither a pantherine nor a feline.  There is only one living species.  All modern cats fall into those three subfamilies, and the extinct sabretooths made up a fourth (the Machairodontinae).

 

There is only one species of tiger (Panthera tigris), but there are a number of subspecies -- which are all extinct or extremely threatened.

 

This pages give information on each of eight subspecies, three of which are (very recently) extinct:

http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/sp-accts.htm

http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Panthera_tigris/

[Kingaroo]

Siberian and Bengal tigers look different, ti's not just where they live. I assume they are sub-species.
There are also Sumatran, Indochinese and South China tigers. Differences include average size, width of stripes, amount and placement of white on the face, and probably details of diet and behavior.