Plasmodium melanipherum

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Plasmodium melanipherum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.

Like all Plasmodium species P. melanipherum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are mammals.

Plasmodium melanipherum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista Phylum: Apicomplexa Class: Aconoidasida Order: Haemosporida Family: Plasmodiidae Genus: Plasmodium Species: P. melanipherum
Binomial name
Plasmodium melanipherum

Contents 1 Description 2 Geographical occurrence 3 Clinical features and host pathology 4 References

[edit] Description

This species was first described by Dionisi in 1899. A subspecies (P. melanipherum monosoma) was later described by Vassal in 1907

[edit] Geographical occurrence

[edit] Clinical features and host pathology

P. melanipherum infects Schreiber's bat (Miniopterus schreibersi).

P. melanipherum monosoma infects the bat Vesperugo abramus.

[edit] References