Cape Lion

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Cape Lion

Conservation status: Extinct (1860)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Felidae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. leo
Subspecies:	P. l. melanochaitus

Trinomial name

Panthera leo melanochaitus
Ch. H. Smith, 1842

The Cape Lion Panthera leo melanochaitus is an extinct subspecies of lion.

Cape "black-maned" Lions ranged along the Cape of Africa on the southern tip of the continent. The Cape Lion was not the only subspecies living in South Africa, and its exact range is unclear. Its stronghold was Cape Province and around Cape Town. The last Cape Lion seen in Cape Province was killed in 1858. However, in 2000, specimens were found in captivity in Russia and brought to South Africa for breeding. [1]

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