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Paul says he and a friend were travelling by train near Glenfinnan when they spotted what he describes as a melanistic leopard, also known as a black panther.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

Of the 40 cat species worldwide, nearly half have melanistic or black color morphs.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2022

There’s even a tiny area in Sikkim, which is a small mountainous state in the Eastern Himalayan region, where melanistic Asiatic golden cats are far more common than any other morph.

From Scientific American • May 28, 2013

There is also a spotted, ocelot-like morph that is more common in China than the usual colouring, and numerous melanistic, or black, individuals have been found, particularly in Nepal.

From Scientific American • May 28, 2013

Remarks.—Specimen number 52014, ♂, represents the melanistic phase of this subspecies.

From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.