Entity:

Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:	Cavalier-Smith, 1986
Unavailable original name, rank & spelling	:	Fjerdingstad, 1965. Int. Rev. Hydrobiol. 50: 571. [nom. nud.].
Unavailable original name, rank & spelling	:	Whittaker, R.H. & Margulis, L. 1978. BioSystems 10: table 2 (p. 12). [nom. nud.].
Unavailable original name, rank & spelling	:	Cavalier-Smith, T. 1981. BioSystems 14 (3-4): table 8 (p. 468). [nom. nud.].
Original name, rank & spelling	:	Cavalier-Smith, T. 1986. In F.E. Round & D.J. Chapman (eds.), Progress in Phycological Research 4: 338 ("phylum novum. Nomen typificatum."). ≡
Description/Diagnosis in English	:	loc. cit.

Validation

Validating description/diagnosis

Cryptophyta (Subkingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1986)

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1986: 338 ("Diagnosis"). [new]

Allowable contraction [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 16.4 (>order)]

Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 10 Jan 2024.

Type, by original designation

Cryptomonas (Genus) Ehrenb. (1831)

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1986: 338. [new]

Equivalent rank	:	*Cryptophyta* (Division)
Different rank	:	*Cryptista* (Subkingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1986)
Different rank	:	*Cryptista* (Infrakingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1989)
Different rank	:	*Cryptophyceae* (Class) F.E. Fritsch (1927)	Ref: M. Gillott, 1990: 139.
Different rank	:	*Cryptophytobionta* (Kingdom)
Current rank	:	*Cryptomonada* (Superclass) Cavalier-Smith, 2004	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 344). [inferred]
Subsequent spelling	:	*Cryptista* (Phylum) Caval.-Sm. (1990), orth. inval.	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1989[1990]: 393, table 20.1 (p. 385). [new]
Different termination	:	*Cryptista* (Phylum) Caval.-Sm. (1990), orth. inval.
Current termination	:	*Cryptista* (Phylum) Caval.-Sm. (1990), orth. inval.	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1993b: table 2 (p. 961).

Senior homonym (allowed)

Cryptophyta ([unranked]) Link (1824)

Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present: 13 Oct 2019.

Accepted name	:	*cryptomonads* ([unranked])
Synonymous name	:	*cryptomonads* ([unranked])		Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982

Full name	:	cryptomonads
	:	cryptophytes