Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-24.152.210.191-20140315025519/@comment-4949963-20141130002718

If I may weigh in on the taxonomy: The term 'panther' may refer to any member of the genus Panthera, which includes the lion, leopard, jaguar, tiger, and snow leopard. (or in a wider sense it may even refer to the whole Big Cat subfamily Pantherina, adding the clouded leopards.) So any on those may accurately be called a panther, with the "white" then referring to a white color morph or in the case of the snow leopard simply being a descriptive adjective.

Looking a the article images, there's one with large spots (that don't especially look like any particular Big Cat species to me), and one with more tiger-like stripy markings and physiognomy. Which is either doylist inconsistency, or watsonianlly general variation in the species or the existence of subgroups. Leaving the description at "white panther" is the fitting description available without more detailed info (i.e. narrowing it down to some specific panther species, or a Small Cat species instead; cheetahs being the latter).