Panthera leo melanochaita
| Panthera leo melanochaita | |
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| Male lions in South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. leo |
| Subspecies: | P. l. melanochaita |
| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera leo melanochaita (Ch. H. Smith, 1842) | |
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies that occurs in East and Southern Africa.[1] It comprises the following populations:
- Cape lion (P. l. melanochaita) — inhabited South Africa's Cape Province until the mid-19th century.[2]
- East African lion, formerly P. l. massaicus (Neumann 1900) — ranges in East Africa.[1]
- Southern African lion, formerly P. l. bleyenberghi (Lönnberg 1914) — ranges in Southern Africa.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Kitchener, A. C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Abramov, A. V.; Christiansen, P.; Driscoll, C.; Duckworth, J. W.; Johnson, W.; Luo, S.-J.; Meijaard, E.; O’Donoghue, P.; Sanderson, J.; Seymour, K.; Bruford, M.; Groves, C.; Hoffmann, M.; Nowell, K.; Timmons, Z.; Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group" (PDF). Cat News. Special Issue 11: 71–73.
- ↑ Mazak, V. (1975). "Notes on the Black-maned Lion of the Cape, Panthera leo melanochaita (Ch. H. Smith, 1842) and a Revised List of the Preserved Specimens". Verhandelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (64): 1–44.
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