Plasmodium cyclopsi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. 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. Distribution This species was described in Gabon. Hosts The only known host species for this parasite is the cyclops roundleaf bat (Hipposideros cyclops). References cyclopsi Taxa named by Alain Chabaud