lion
Species of big cat
Also known as African lion · the lion · Asiatic lion · Panthera leo · q140
- Scientific name
- Panthera leo
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Sources- 1.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- Panthera leo
- Rank
- species
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Sources- 1.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- species
- Parent taxon
- Panthera
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Sources- 1.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- Panthera
- Conservation status
- vulnerable
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Sources- 1.Stated in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2Retrieved 2023-01-02
- vulnerable
- Mass
- 1.65 kg
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- , 188 kg
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- , 126 kg
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- 1.65 kg
Overview
All data
269 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Taxon common name
- Lion
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Sources- 1.Stated in IUCN Red ListRetrieved 2016-10-21
- 2.Stated in Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names
- Leeu
- Gyata
- Leyón
- Lión
- أَسَدٌ
- Léwe
- Löwe
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- Леў (Lew)
- Лъв (Lăv)
- সিংহ
- Lleó
- Лоьм
- lev lexeme sense: L43101-S1
- Llew
- Løve
- Löwe
- Dzata
- Λιοντάρι (Liondári)
- Leono
- León
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- Lõvi
- Lehoi
- شیر
- Leijona
- Leyva
- Lion
- Lööw
- León-leoa
- સિંહ
- Liona
- אריה
- शेर
- सिंह
- Lav
- Oroszlán
- Առյուծ
- Ljón
- Leone
- ライオン
- 사자
- Арстан
- Leo
- Liew
- Nkosi
- Liūtas
- Lauva
- Лав (lav)
- സിംഹം (simham)
- शेर (Śēra)
- सिंह (singh
- Iljun
- Leeuw
- Løve
- Løve
- Náshdóítsoh bitsiijįʼ daditłʼooígíí
- ਬੱਬਰ ਸ਼ੇਰ
- lew afrykański
- Leão
- Leu
- Lion
- Gestation period
- 108 days
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- 108 days
- Produced sound
- lion roar reason for preferred rank: most precise value
- roar
- Litter size
- 2.5
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- 2.5
- Period of lactation
- 8 months
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- 8 months
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES country: India
- Age of onset of sexual maturity
- 4 years sex or gender: female organism · sourcing circumstances: circa
- 3 years sex or gender: male organism
On other databases
102 identifiers linking lion across the web's reference databases
- ADW taxon IDPanthera_leo
- Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entrylion
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID111
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300310388
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineliutas
- ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID1006020
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/9244
- BabelNet ID00049156n
- Baidu Tieba name狮子
- BBC News topic IDce2gz91pyv2t
- BBC Things ID43415f14-8b6c-4111-9606-72ea4fea9cc3
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11932251d
- Biblissima authority IDQ292273
- BioLib taxon ID2004
- BNCF Thesaurus ID34922
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDlöwe
- CalPhotos taxon IDPanthera+leo
- Catalogue of Life ID4CGXP
- CITES Species+ ID6353
- CMS IDpanthera-leo
- Concepticon concept set ID1386
- Daum Encyclopedia IDb11s0701a
- Dewey Decimal Classification599.757
- EBiodiversity ID85426
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID141082
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDanimal/lion
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDlion
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID229769
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2JQAHs
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)171981
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture IDE0025906
- Encyclopedia of Life ID328672
- Encyclopédie berbère article ID352
- EPPO CodePNTHLE
- EUNIS ID for species17292
- FactGrid item IDQ410026
- Fandom article IDanimals:Lion
- Fossilworks taxon ID49734
- Freebase ID/m/096mb
- GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)5219404
- GND ID4140572-9
- Golden ID (archived)Lion-XK5XX
- Google News topics IDCAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNRGsyYldJU0FtcGhLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDlleo-6
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0120024
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDløve
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDlev-576821
- Harper's taglions
- Iconclass notation25F23(LION)
- IMDb keywordlion
- INaturalist taxon ID41964
- India Biodiversity Portal species ID257361
- Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID70719
- IRMNG ID10196306
- ITIS TSN183803
- IUCN taxon ID15951
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID10001
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)lions
- KBpedia IDLion
- Klexikon article IDLöwe
- Krugosvet article (archived)biologiya/lev
- Lex IDløve
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85077276
- Macaulay Library taxon IDt-11031947
- Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID183803
- MeSH descriptor IDD008045
- MeSH tree codeB01.050.150.900.649.313.750.377.750.600.500
- MSW ID14000228
- Museum-digital tag ID4413
- MyBIS species ID48786
- NALT ID50261
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDterm/6AAF39E5-FF34-437F-B227-FF359BA6B223
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX530613
- Naver Encyclopedia ID (pre-August 2026)1107856
- NCBI taxonomy ID9689
- NDL Authority ID00616831
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDライオン
- NL CR AUT IDph122474
- Observation.org taxon ID79432
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning5961
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3931987
- Open Plaques subject ID6081
- Open Tree of Life ID563151
- OpenStreetMap node ID869828686
- PACTOLS thesaurus IDpcrt5TAeZsO7W4
- Paleobiology Database taxon ID46521
- Quora topic IDLions
- RKD thesaurus ID64570
- SVKKL authority ID0361546-lev
- TAXREF ID644245