Plasmodium melanipherum

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

Description

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

Clinical features and host pathology

P. melanipherum infects Schreibers' bat (Miniopterus schreibersii).

P. melanipherum monosoma infects the bat Vesperugo abramus.

References


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