The Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo), sometimes referred to as the Atlas lion or North African lion, was an African lion population native to North Africa, including the Atlas Mountains, that is now considered extinct in the wild. It is believed that the last wild Barbary lions died out or were killed in the 1950s and early 1960s. The last recorded shooting took place in the western Maghreb in 1942 near Tizi n'Tichka.
The Barbary lion was first described by the Austrian zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer under the trinomen Felis leo barbaricus on the basis of a type specimen from Barbary.
A lion from Constantine, Algeria was considered the type specimen of the specific name Felis leo used by Linnaeus in 1758
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