Panthera leo subsp. leo Linnaeus 1758

Panthera leo subsp. leo Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 41.

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

Synonyms: Panthera leo subsp. africana (Brehm 1829); Panthera leo subsp. barbarica (Meyer 1826); Panthera leo subsp. barbara (Fisher 1829); Panthera leo subsp. nigra (Loche 1867); Panthera leo subsp. nobilis (Gray 1867); Panthera leo subsp. nubica (de Blainville 1843); Panthera leo subsp. somaliensis (Noack 1891) .