The Caspian tiger
Panthera Tigris Virgata

The Caspian tiger was the smallest of all the tigers, but is now extinct.

The Caspian tiger lived the most to the West of Asia of all the tigers. He lived in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Central-Asian countries of the formerly Soviet Union (around the Caspian sea).
Because this sort was so close to Europe, even sometimes in Greece, this was the tiger that often fights in amphitheaters in the Roman Empire.
But earlier, they were used as a status symbol, because the tiger radiated power and might, just as the lion.
Unfortunately this subspecies of tiger is extinct since 1970.

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