Panthera leo leo

Familia: Felidae
Subfamilia: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species: Panthera leo
Subspecies: Panthera leo leo

Panthera leo leo (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

• Felis leo Linnaeus, 1758
• Felis leo barbaricus Meyer, 1826
• Leo africanus Brehm, 1829
• Felis leo α barbarus Fischer, 1829
• Felis leo nubicus Blainville, 1843
• Felis leo nigra Loche, 1858
• Leo nobilis Gray, 1867
• [Felis leo] var. somaliensis Noack, 1891

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth Edition (10 ed.), Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 1: 41.
• Meyer, J. N. 1826. Dissertatio inauguralis anatomico–medica de genere felium. Dissertation, Doctor of Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria: 6.
• Brehm, C. L. 1829. 1829. Der Löwe, keine Katze. Isis [Isis von Oken; Oken’s Isis] 22: 638.
• de Blainville, H. M. D. 1843. Ostéographie ou description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récents et fossils pour servir de base à la zoologie et la géologie. Volume 2 . J. B. Baillière et Fils, Paris, France.
• Loche, 1858. Catalog de mammals et oiseaux observes en Algérie. [publisher and location not known].
• Gray, J. E. 1867. Notes on the skull of the cats (Felidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867: 263.
• Noack, T. 1891. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Säugetier-Fauna von Ostafrika. Jahrbuch Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstaiten, 9 (1): 120.

• Panthera leo leo in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Panthera leo leo (Linnaeus, 1758) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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