diff --git a/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeSGI.cxx b/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeSGI.cxx
index a1332d3714..9a3e9c0f7e 100644
--- a/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeSGI.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeSGI.cxx
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 using std::string;
 
 static const char * const extensions_sgi[] = {
-  "rgb", "rgba", "sgi"
+  "rgb", "rgba", "sgi", "bw"
 };
 static const int num_extensions_sgi = sizeof(extensions_sgi) / sizeof(const char *);