Panthera leo
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Felidae
Panthera
Panthera leo

description: <i>Panthera leo</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:41. TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa", restricted by Allen (1924:222) to "the Barbary coast region of Africa, or, more explicity, Constantine, Algeria ". DISTRIBUTION: Present (except in tropical rain forests) in Botswana, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Formerly present but now extinct in Algeria, Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as <i>P.</i> <i>I. persica;</i> otherwise Appendix II. U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as <i>P. I. persica.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>adusta</i> Pocock, 1927; <i>africanus</i> Brehm, 1829; <i>asiaticus</i> Jardine, 1834; <i>azandicus</i> Allen, 1924; <i>barbaricus</i> Meyer, 1826; <i>barbarus</i> Fischer, 1829; <i>bengalensis</i> Bennett, 1829; <i>bleyenberghi</i> Lönnberg, 1914; <i>capensis</i> Fischer, 1829; <i>gambianus</i> Gray, 1843; <i>goojratensis</i> Smee, 1833; <i>hollisteri</i> Allen, 1924; <i>indicus</i> de Blainville, 1843; <i>kamptzi</i> Matschie, 1900; <i>krugeri</i> Roberts, 1929; <i>maculatus</i> Huevelmans, 1955; <i>massaicus</i> Neumann, 1900; <i>melanochaitus</i> H. Smith, 1842; <i>nigra</i> Loche, 1858; <i>nobilis</i> Gray, 1867; <i>nubicus</i> Blainville, 1843; <i>nyanzae</i> Heller, 1913; <i>persicus</i> Meyer, 1826; <i>roosevelti</i> Heller, 1913; <i>sabakiensis</i> Lönnberg, 1905; <i>senegalensis Meyer,</i> 1826; <i>somaliensis</i> Noack, 1891; <i>suahelicus</i> Neumann, 1900; <i>vernayi</i> Roberts, 1948; <i>webbiensis</i> Zukowsky, 1964. COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1930c). Placed in <i>Panthera</i> by Pocock (1930c), Weigel (1961), Kratochvil (1982c), Hemmer (1978), and Groves (1982a).
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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