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Cryptophyta 
AphiaID: 17638

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Hacrobia (Subkingdom)
Authority Cavalier-Smith, 1986
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Phylum
Parent Hacrobia
Synonymised
taxa		  Cryptista
Sources  basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source: M'harzi, A. (1999). Phytoplankton community structuring in some areas of the North Sea. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel, Belgium. 221 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English cryptophytes  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Class Cryptophyceae
Class Cryptophyta incertae sedis
Class Goniomonadophyceae
Class Katablepharidophyceae
Class Telonemea

Subphylum Cryptomonada (unaccepted, disused)
Subphylum Leucocrypta (unaccepted, disused)
Environment marine
Link To GenBank
Note  Classification: Cryptophyta is also a valid synonym of Cryptomonada. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:17638
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-08-04 10:39:12Z  changed  Claus, Simon
2008-10-22 09:06:10Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2008-11-05 16:13:03Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-10-29 09:16:31Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-10-29 13:59:50Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2011-10-17 13:02:04Z  changed  Gordon, Dennis
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Cryptophyta. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=17638 on 2013-05-24
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