Question: What type of panther is this fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the "Jungle Book" that along with Baloo save Mowgli from Shere Khan?

Context articles: The Jungle Book (1967 film)
The Jungle Book (2016 film)
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book
The Jungle Book (1994 film)
Hathi
Raksha (The Jungle Book)
Baloo
All the Mowgli Stories
The Jungle Book
Bagheera

The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions.
 Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film.
 Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production.
 The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives.
The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film, directed and co-produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks.
 Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works and inspired by Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name, "The Jungle Book" is a live-action/CGI film that tells the story of Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan.
 The film introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli and also features the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken.
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book is an American live action television series based on the Mowgli stories from the Rudyard Kipling novels, "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book".
 A contemporary adaptation, the series has Mowgli joined on his adventures by a young American girl named, Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur, India.
 The show was created by Timothy Scott Bogart, Guy Toubes, and James Hereth and produced by Wolfcrest Entertainment and Franklin/Waterman Worldwide, and distributed internationally by Alliance Entertainment.
 It premiered on the Fox Kids Network in the United States on February 7, 1998 and ran until March 21, 1998.
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman.
 It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.
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 Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895).
 Hathi is a bull elephant that lives in the jungle.
 Kipling named him after "hāthī" (हाथी),(ہاتھی) the Hindi and Urdu word for "elephant".
Raksha (Hindi: रक्षा / "Rakṣā" or Mother Wolf as initially named) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, collected in "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book".
 She is a female Indian wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human "cub" that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him "Mowgli" (which means "frog" in the Speech of the Jungle) because of his hairlessness.
Baloo (Hindi: भालू "Bhālū", "bear") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" from 1894 and "The Second Jungle Book" from 1895.
 Baloo, a bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack.
 His most challenging pupil is the "man-cub" Mowgli.
 Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of "The Jungle Book" stories.
All the Mowgli Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
 As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about Mowgli from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book", together with "In the Rukh" (the first Mowgli story written although the last in chronological order).
 The book also includes the epigrammatic poems added to the stories for their original book publication.
 All of the stories and poems had originally been published between 1893 and 1895.
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling.
 The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.
 A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.
 Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear.
 The book has been adapted many times for film and other media.
Bagheera (Hindi: बघीरा ; Urdu: بگیڑہ‎ "Baghīrā"/"Bagīdah") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the "Jungle Book" (coll.
 1894) and the "Second Jungle Book" (coll.
 1895).
 He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the "man-cub" Mowgli.
 The word "bagheera" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther.