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East African lion

Panthera leo melanochaita

Order: Carnivora

Family: Felidae

Datasheet

Sex: female

Age: adult

Skull length: 30.6 cm

Skull width: 20.2 cm

Skull height: 13.7 cm

Skull weight: 1035 g

Owner: Hungarian Natural History Museum

Inventory number: 3501.6.

Collecting date: May 1926

Collecting area: Semuliki forest, Uganda

Uploaded: 25 March 2018

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Note: Inventoried as Panthera leo nubica.

Note: The skull is the property of and the photos are authenticated by the Hungarian Natural History Museum.

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East African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) skull

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