Egyptian lion

Barbary lion
A male Barbary lion photographed in Algeria by Alfred Edward Pease in 1893.
Lioness and cubs, New York Zoo, 1903.
Conservation status
Extinct in the wild (not assessed as subspecies by IUCN)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. leo
Subspecies:	P. l. leo
Trinomial name
Panthera leo leo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
P. l. africana (Brehm, 1829), P. l. nubica (de Blainville, 1843), P. l. somaliensis (Noack, 1891)

P. l. africana (Brehm, 1829), P. l. nubica (de Blainville, 1843), P. l. somaliensis (Noack, 1891)

The Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) is the nominate lion subspecies. In North Africa, lions are locally extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting; the last known Barbary lion was killed in Morocco in 1920. Some authors referred to it as the Berber lion, and treated the Egyptian lion as a population of this subspecies. Since it had inhabited the Atlas Mountains, and was also known as the Atlas lion. In addition, Alfred Edward Pease referred to the Barbary lion as the North African lion, and claimed that the population had diminished since the mid-19th century, following the diffusion of firearms and bounties for shooting them. The last recorded shooting of a wild Barbary lion took place in Morocco, near Tizi n'Tichka in 1942. Small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s.

Results of morphological and genetic analyses of lions warrant the designation of lion populations in North, West and northern parts of Central Africa to the subspecies P. l. leo, which differ genetically from P. l. melanochaita in Eastern and Southern Africa, and parts of Central Africa that are adjacent to the latter two regions.

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