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SPECIES Panthera leo

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 41.
Common Name:Lion
Type Locality:"Africa", restricted by J. A. Allen (1924:222) to "the Barbary coast region of Africa, or, more explicitly, Constantine, Algeria".
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.
Status: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.
Comments:Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951); G. M. Allen (1939). Revised by Pocock (1930c). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1930c), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982c), and Groves (1982a).
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SUBSPECIES leo

SUBSPECIES azandica

SUBSPECIES bleyenberghi

SUBSPECIES hollisteri

SUBSPECIES kamptzi

SUBSPECIES krugeri

SUBSPECIES massaica

SUBSPECIES melanochaita

SUBSPECIES nyanzae

SUBSPECIES persica

SUBSPECIES senegalensis

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