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. leo
Trinomial name
Panthera leo leo
(Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
The Horn of Africa
Synonyms[2]

P. l. webbiensis (Zukowsky, 1964)

The Somali lion (Panthera leo leo) was described on the basis of a lion specimen from Somalia under the trinomen Felis leo somaliensis by Noack in 1891.[3][4] In 1939, it was considered synonymous with F. l. leo.[5][6] Some authors considered it also synonymous with P. l. webbiensis, which was proposed for a lion specimen from Somaliland.[2][7]

In 2005, it was subordinated to P. l. leo.[1] 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.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 546. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. 1 2 Haas, S.K.; Hayssen, V.; Krausman, P.R. (2005). "Panthera leo" (PDF). Mammalian Species. 762: 1–11. doi:10.1644/1545-1410(2005)762[0001:PL]2.0.CO;2.
  3. ↑ Noack, T. (1891). "Felis leo". Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 9 (1): 120.
  4. ↑ Allen, J. A. (1924). "Carnivora Collected By The American Museum Congo Expedition". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 47: 73–281.
  5. ↑ Allen, G. M. (1939). "A Checklist of African Mammals". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 83: 1–763.
  6. ↑ Stott, K. (1950). "Locality records of African mammals". Journal of Mammalogy 31 (2): 185–189.
  7. ↑ Zukowsky, L. (1964). "Eine neue Löwenrasse als weiterer Beleg für die Verzwergung der Wirbeltierfauna des afrikanischen Osthorns.". Milu, Wissenschaftliche und Kulturelle Mitteilungen aus dem Tierpark Berlin 1: 269–273.
  8. ↑ Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting, A. and Yamaguchi, N. (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: 76.
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