My gnome priest is displayed as a pandarean in the game as I complete quests and navigate around the game. On the character pop-up and on the character selection screen, they are displayed correctly as a gnome. I had a previous deleted pandarean character with the same name on a different realm which may be contributing. This has occurred over the last two weeks with multiple reboots and logins.
OK for some reason, after I submitted this report, it is now fixed. Thx for whatever magic addressed it.