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Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom: ... The lion's role as ruler of animals has been used in the 1994 Disney animated feature film The Lion King ...
Zoology mnemonics, which are used to memorize the scientific taxonomic classification system, include: "Despicable King Phillip came over for grandma's specialty." "Despicable King Phillip covets our fancy giant swimming pool." "Dizzy kids puke cereal on Fair Grounds staff." "Do kindly place candy out for good students."
A taxon above the rank of species has a scientific name in one part (a uninominal name). A species has a name typically composed of two parts (a binomial name or binomen): generic name + specific name; for example Canis lupus. Sometimes the name of a subgenus (in parentheses) can be intercalated between the genus name and the specific epithet ...
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
Different regression models produce a wide range of body mass estimates for Simbakubwa kutokaafrika: from a low estimate of 280 kg (620 lb), based on an equation derived from the m3 length of various large carnivorans, comparable to the largest lions, to an upper estimate possibly reaching up to 1,308 and 1,554 kg (2,884 and 3,426 lb), based on equations derived from carnassial length of ...
A lion from Constantine, Algeria, was the type specimen for the specific name Felis leo used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. [11] In the 19th and 20th centuries, several lion zoological specimens from Africa and Asia were described and proposed as subspecies:
The lion plays a prominent role in The Fables of Pilpay that were translated into Persian, Greek and Hebrew languages between the 8th and 12th centuries. [101] The lion is the symbol of Mahavira, the 24th and last Tirthankara in Jainism. [102] [103] The lion is the third animal of the Burmese zodiac and the sixth animal of the Sinhalese zodiac ...
The scientific work of deciding how to define species has been called microtaxonomy. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 20 ] By extension, macrotaxonomy is the study of groups at the higher taxonomic ranks subgenus and above, [ 20 ] or simply in clades that include more than one taxon considered a species, expressed in terms of phylogenetic nomenclature .