The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion. It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of
A Barbary lion in the Bronx Zoo, 1897
Public sale of atlas lions, Korenmarkt, Ghent (1931)
Painting of a lion hunt in Morocco by Eugène Delacroix, 1855, in the Hermitage Museum
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae. It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the j