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 | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Protista |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemosporida |
| Family: | Plasmodiidae |
| Genus: | Plasmodium |
| Species: | P. melanipherum |
| Binomial name | |
| Plasmodium melanipherum |
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This species was first described by Dionisi in 1899. A subspecies (P. melanipherum monosoma) was later described by Vassal in 1907
P. melanipherum infects Schreiber's bat (Miniopterus schreibersi).
P. melanipherum monosoma infects the bat Vesperugo abramus.