Somali lion

Somali lion
An illustration of a lion being encountered by a group of people on an expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. leo
Subspecies:	P. l.
Trinomial name
Panthera leo
The Horn of Africa
Synonyms
P. l. somaliensis (Noack, 1758), P. l. webbiensis (Zukowsky, 1964)

P. l. somaliensis (Noack, 1758), P. l. webbiensis (Zukowsky, 1964)

The Somali lion (Panthera leo) was described on the basis of a lion specimen from Somalia and proposed as a subspecies under the trinomen Felis leo somaliensis by Noack in 1891. In 1939, it was considered synonymous with F. l. leo.Ellerman and Morrison-Scott recognized only one lion subspecies in Africa, namely P. l. leo. Some authors considered the Somali lion also synonymous with P. l. webbiensis, which was proposed for a lion specimen from Somaliland.

In 2005, the Somali lion was subordinated to P. l. leo. Results of a phylogeographic study indicate that southeastern Ethiopia is an admixture region between North African and East African lion populations. In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group classified the lion populations in Asia and Western, Central and North Africa as P. l. leo, and those in East and Southern Africa to P. l. melanochaita.

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