Plasmodium cyclopsi

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

Plasmodium cyclopsi
Scientific classification
(unranked): Diaphoretickes
Clade: TSAR
Clade: SAR
Infrakingdom: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. cyclopsi
Binomial name
Plasmodium cyclopsi
Landau and Chabaud, 1978

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

Taxonomy

The parasite was first described by Landau and Chabaud in 1978.[1]

Distribution

This species was described in Gabon.

Hosts

The only known host species for this parasite is the cyclops roundleaf bat (Hipposideros cyclops).

References
  1. Landau, I.; Chabaud, A.-G. (1978). "Description de Plasmodium cyclopsi n. sp. parasite du Microchiroptère Hipposideros cyclops à Makokou (Gabon)". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 53 (3): 247–253. doi:10.1051/parasite/1978533247.
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