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The lion belongs to the following groups: Kingdom Animalia (includes all animals) Phylum Chordata (includes all vertebrate animals, as well as some other more primitive ones) Class Mammalia (includes...
Barbary Lion, Cave Lion, American Lion, Cape Lion, Marozi, Asiatic Lion, Sri Lanka Lion, Panthera leo vereshchagini, Panthera leo fossilis, liger, European Lion, Barbary lion, Panthera leo spelaea...
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora
Suborder Feliformia
Family Felidae
Subfamily Pantherinae
Species Panthera leo