pantherine cats Pocock, 1917
   Genus Panthera Oken, 1816 - big cats
     Subgenus Panthera Oken, 1816 - leopard
       Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) - lion
         leo group - African and South-Asian lions
           1.1 persica subgroup
           1.2 Panthera leo leo (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlas lion
           2 senegalensis subgroup