A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any Panthera species. Black panthers in Asia and Africa are leopards(Panthera pardus) and black panthers in the Americas are black jaguars (Panthera onca).
Leopard
The Javan leopard was initially described as being black with dark black spots and silver-grey eyes.[3]
Black leopards are common in the equatorial rainforest of Malaya and the tropical rainforest on the slopes of some African mountains such as Mount Kenya.[4] They are also common in Java, and are reported from densely forested areas in southwestern China, Myanmar, Assam and Nepal, from Travancore and other parts of southern India where they may be more numerous than spotted leopards.[5] One was recorded in the equatorial forest of Cameroon.
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