Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)
10. Carnivora (order)
11. Felidae (family)
12. Panthera (genus)

Narrower term/s

• Panthera leo leo (subspecies)
• Panthera leo persica (subspecies)
• Panthera leo azandica (subspecies)
• Panthera leo bleyenberghi (subspecies)
• Panthera leo krugeri (subspecies)
• Panthera leo melanochaita (subspecies)
• Panthera leo nubica (subspecies)
• Panthera leo senegalensis (subspecies)
• Panthera leo spelaea (extinct subspecies)
• Panthera leo atrox (extinct subspecies)

Anotations

Scope note:

Large, powerful species of cat that is well-muscled, with a large head, short legs, size and appearance that varies considerably between the sexes, and is unique among the cats in living in family groups or prides. In the Pleistocene, lions were the most widespread large land mammals, ranging throughout Eurasia, Africa, and North America. Today listed as Vulnerable, remaining only in fragmented populations remain in Sub-Saharan Africa and western India.