Panthera leo ssp. melanochaitus (Cape Lion)

[another specialist]

Nelson - The stuffed Cape lion in Rotherham Museum

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[Peter]

Sept 11, 2007 18:25:15 GMT another specialist said:

Short notes and reviews
On a mounted skeleton of apparently the extinct Cape Lion, Panthera leo melanochaita (Ch. H. Smith, 1842)

P.J.H. van Bree

Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, . P.O. Box 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Keywords: Cape Lion, Panthera leo melanochaita, , skeleton study, Vrolik’s museum

Recently, the skeleton of apparently a Cape Lion was discovered in the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam. The history of the specimen as far as known is summarized and its attribution to Panthera leo melanochaita is elucidated with some measurements taken from the skeleton and the study of fur colours and manes’ development on an oil painting of the same animal in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Both the animal and the painting once belonged to King Louis Napoléon Bonaparte of Holland.
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The second Amsterdam specimen mentioned in the paper in the quote is not a Cape Lion:

Ross Barnett; Nobuyuki Yamaguchi; Beth Shapiro; Vincent Nijman. (2007): Using ancient DNA techniques to identify the origin of unprovenanced museum specimens, as illustrated by the identification of a 19th century lion from Amsterdam. Contribution to Zoology, 76 (2).

Abstract
In natural history collections throughout Europe, there are many old lion specimens of unknown origin. If these specimens can be shown to have originated from now-extinct populations their value would significantly increase, as would the value of the collections. Recently, a 200-year old mounted skeleton in the Zoological Museum Amsterdam has been identified as the extinct Cape lion Panthera leo melanochaita (Smith, 1842), based primarily on morphological information inferred from a painting of this specimen while it was still alive. To test this hypothesis, we used ancient DNA (aDNA) techniques to extract and sequence mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from this specimen, and compared the genetic results with previously published lion mtDNA sequences. Our results show that the specimen is not a Cape lion, but that it instead possesses the mtDNA haplotype of the Asiatic lions P. l. persica (Meyer, 1826) from India. This Indian origin hypothesis is further supported by an investigation of its cranial morphology. As the amount of genetic information available for lions increases, in particular data from across their historic distribution, the potential for aDNA techniques to identify the origins of previously unassigned museum specimens continues to grow.

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[Bhagatí]

We recommend you to Cape Lion, also very detailed study
publication GAZELLA 36/2009.
On the pages 33 - 151 is there to this very detailed article:

LUPTÁK, P.: The external variability and taxonomy of recent and extinct subspecies of lion (Panthera leo)


Preview - is to turn to find:
www.zoobojnice.sk/vyskum/externa-variabilita-taxonomia-sucasnych-vyhynutych-poddruhov-leva

Cape lion is illustrated here:



There is illustrated also, the berber lion and true persian lion.
This publication is work of LUPTÁK, P, and his Lion team.
Where there is a lot of authors who have him in this article really helped very much.

[surroundx]

Rossi, L., Scuzzarella, C. M. and Angelici, F. M. (2020). Extinct or Perhaps Surviving Relict Populations of Big Cats: Their Controversial Stories and Implications for Conservation, pp. 393-417. In: Angelici F., Rossi L. (eds.). Problematic Wildlife II. Cham: Springer.