North-East / Central / Equatorial African lions

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Phylogeographic studies were done on Sudanese lion samples, including from Nubia. Barnett et al. (https://web.archive.org/web/200708081825...0lions.pdf) used a vertebra from Nubia, and in terms of mtDNA, it grouped with skulls of Central African lions in the Central African Republic, and the northern part of Congo-Kinshasa (D. R. Congo), and that of an Ethiopian lion, but that it was less closely related to Northern (Barbary), Western, Eastern and Southern African lions, and lions in other parts of Central Africa: 

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However, in another study by people including Barnett (https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._diversity), a drilled bone from Sudan (not sure where in Sudan, and Alfred Edward Pease, who wrote extensively about lions in parts of Africa that he had been to, including Barbary and Northeast African lions, tells us much about where in Sudan they had been (https://books.google.com/books?id=XHyIDQ...ns&f=false)) was used, and in this case, the Sudanese lion was distinct from others, including a Northeast Congolese lion. Reply