The Sinai leopard from the Sinai peninsula has initially been described as a leopard subspecies under the scientific name Panthera pardus jarvisi by Pocock in 1932. Since the late 1990s, leopards were not recorded in Egypt any more.In the early 1990s, a phylogeographic analysis was carried out based on tissue samples from Asian and African leopards. The Sinai leopard was provisionally grouped with the Persian leopard (P. p.