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The Barbary lion is an extinct Panthera leo leo population that lived in the Barbary Coast regions of the Maghreb, from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to Egypt, but was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions. A comprehensive review of hunting and sighting records revealed that small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s. Today, it is locally extinct.
Until 2017, the Barbary lion was considered a distinct lion subspecies. Results of morphological and genetic analyses of lion samples from North Africa published in 2008 showed that the Barbary lion does not differ significantly from lion samples collected in West and northern parts of Central Africa. It falls into the same phylogeographic group as the Asiatic lion, and is also closely related to lion populations in West Africa.
The Barbary lion was also called “North African lion”, “Berber lion”, “Atlas lion”, and “Egyptian lion”.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_lion
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