Cryptophyta

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: Cam
Cladus: Pancryptista
Cladus: Cryptista
Phylum: Cryptophyta

Classes: Cryptophyceae – Goniomonadophyceae – Katablepharidophyceae

Familia (incertae sedis): Katablepharidaceae

Genera (incertae sedis): Butschliella – Calkinsiella – Protocryptochrysis – Skvortzoviella – Smithimastix

Cryptophyta Silva, 1962, Cavalier-Smith, 1986

Synonyms or similar groups

• Cryptophyceae Pascher, 1914
• Cryptista

• Cavalier-Smith, T. 2004. Chromalveolate diversity and cell megaevolution: interplay of membranes, genomes and cytoskeleton. In: Hirt, R. P. & Horner, D. S. (eds), Organelles, genomes and eukaryote phylogeny. An evolutionary synthesis in the age of genomics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 75–108. (The Systematics Association Special Volume 68: 75–108). Reference page. 
• Hoef-Emden, K., Archibald, J.M. 2016. Cryptophyta (Cryptomonads). In: Archibald, J.M., Simpson, A.G.B., Slamovits, C. (Eds.). Handbook of the Protists. Springer, pp. 1-41. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6_35-1

Silva, P.C. (1962). Classification of algae. In: Lewin, R.A. (ed.). Physiology and biochemistry of algae. Academic Press, New York and London, pp. 827–837, [1], [2]

"Algae"

• Cryptophyta
  • Cryptophyceae

From The kingdom Protista and its 45 phyla

In Kingdom Protista
Assemblage "Cryptomonads"
Phylum Cryptophyta Pascher, 1914

Cavalier-Smith, T. (1986). The kingdom Chromista, origin and systematics. In: Round, F.E. and Chapman, D.J. (eds.). Progress in Phycological Research. 4: 309–347, [3].

Kingdom Chromista

• Subkingdom Cryptophyta
  • Phylum Cryptophyta

Gillott, M., 1990. 11. Phylum Cryptophyta (Cryptomonads). In: Margulis, L., J.O. Corliss, M. Melkonian, D.J. Chapman (ed.). Handbook of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, p. 139-151. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [4].

Kingdom Protoctista

• Section III: Phyla with flagellated stages, but without complex sexual cycles
  • Phylum 11. Cryptophyta
    • Class Cryptophyceae

From Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla

In Kingdom Chromista, Subkingdom Euchromista
Infrakingdom Cryptista Cavalier-Smith 1989, stat. nov.
Phylum Cryptista (syn. Cryptophyta)

• Class Cryptomonadea
• Class Goniomonadea

From A revised six-kingdom system of life

In Kingdom Chromista
Subkingdom Cryptista Cavalie-Smith 1989
Phylum Cryptophyta Cavalier-Smith 1986

Clay, B.L., Kugrens, P., and Lee, R.E. (1999). A revised classification of Cryptophyta. The Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 131: 131–151, [5].

• Phylum Cryptophyta
  • Class Cryptophyceae
    • Order Cryptomonadales
    • Order Pyrenomonadales
  • Class Goniomondea
    • Order Goniomonadales

• Patterson, D.J. 1999. The Diversity of Eukaryotes. The American Naturalist 154 (S4): 96–124. DOI: 10.1086/303287 PDF Reference page. 

In Eukaryotes
Clade Cryptomonads