Jaguar Panter Puma Leopar. In the leopard and probably other species too this is the non-agouti mutant allele of the agouti gene. Having different origins both the Panthers and Puma are considered to be one of the important and largest members of the cat family.
A large black panther found in the United States Mexico Central or South America that is not a cougar mountain lion or Jaguarundi would likely be a Black Jaguar. Jaguar are the largest cats in the range whilst leopards are the smallest big cats in their habitats behind lions and tigers. See more ideas about wild.
On the other hand the word puma refers to the genus Puma.
Panther which means leopard in Greek is another puma tag thats lived on from colonial days sometimes in the colloquial variant painter. Pumas do not have panthers whereas jaguars do. Conversely in the jaguar and also the jaguarundi Puma yagouaroundi melanism is due to the expression of a dominant mutant allele instead. An imperiled population now restricted to the Florida peninsula is known as the Florida panther.