Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)

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[Felis] leo Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 41 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: "Africa", restricted by J. A. Allen (1924:222) to "the Barbary coast region of Africa, or, more explicitly, Constantine, Algeria ".

Vernacular Names: Lion.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. leo Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. azandica J. A. Allen 1924

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. bleyenberghi Lönnberg 1914

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. hollisteri J. A. Allen 1924

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. kamptzi Matschie 1900

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. krugeri Roberts 1929

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. massaica Neumann 1900

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. melanochaita C. E. H. Smith 1858

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. nyanzae Heller 1913

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. persica Meyer 1826

Subspecies Panthera leo subsp. senegalensis J. N. von Meyer 1826

Distribution: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau (?), India, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Recently extinct: Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Gambia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Tunisia, Western Sahara.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I as P. l. persica; otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as P. l. persica; IUCN – Critically Endangered as P. l. persica, otherwise Vulnerable.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951); G. M. Allen (1939). Revised by Pocock (1930 c). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1930 c), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982 c), and Groves (1982 a).

References

Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281.

Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Groves, C. P. 1982 a. Cranial and dental characteristics in the systematics of Old World Felidae. Carnivore, 5 (2): 28 - 39.

Hemmer, H. 1978. The evolutionary systematics of living Felidae: Present status and current problems. Carnivore, 1 (1): 71 - 79.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Matschie, P. 1900. Uber geographische Albarten des Afrikanischen elephantens. Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft naturforschunde Freunde Berlin, 8: 189 - 197.

Pocock, R. I. 1930 c. The lions of Asia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 34 (3): 638 - 665.

Roberts, A. 1929. New forms of African mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 13: 82 - 121.

Weigel, I. 1961. Das Fellmuster der wildlebenden Katzenarten und der Hauskatze in Vergleichender und Stammesgeschicher Hinsicht. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 9: 1 - 120.