<P> A lion from Constantine, Algeria was the type specimen for the specific name Felis leo used by Linnaeus in 1758 . In the 19th century, several African lion specimens from North Africa were described and proposed as subspecies: </P> <Ul> <Li> In 1826, the Austrian zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer described a lion from the Barbary Coast under the trinomen Felis leo barbaricus . </Li> <Li> In 1843, the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville described a male lion from Nubia under the trinomen Felis leo nubicus that had been sent by Antoine Clot from Cairo to Paris and died in the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in 1841 . </Li> <Li> In 1891, the German zoologist Theodor Noack described two lion specimens from Somalia and proposed Felis leo somaliensis . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In 1826, the Austrian zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer described a lion from the Barbary Coast under the trinomen Felis leo barbaricus . </Li> <Li> In 1843, the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville described a male lion from Nubia under the trinomen Felis leo nubicus that had been sent by Antoine Clot from Cairo to Paris and died in the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in 1841 . </Li>

When did asiatic lions develop as a separate subspecies