Name: Cryptozoon Hall 1883

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cryp.to.zo’on. Gr. masc. adj. kryptos, hidden; Gr. neut. n. zôon, living being, animal; N.L. neut. n. Cryptozoon, a hidden animal

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Cryptozo-), kryp-to-ZO-on

Type species: Cryptozoon proliferum Hall 1883

Valid publication: Hall JW. A description of Cryptozoon proliferum. Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History by the Regents of the University of the State of New York 1883; 36:0.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cryplozoon".
  • 🧍 See also Lee and Riding (2021). Publication: Lee JH, Riding R. The ‘classic stromatolite’ Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge‐microbial consortium. Geobiology 2021; 19:189-198.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cryptozoon boreale Dawson 1889	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon coloradense Johnson 1940	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon confluens Fenton and Fenton 1939	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon frequens corrig. Walcott 1906	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Cryptozoon kansasense corrig. Johnson 1946	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon kansasensis Johnson 1946	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Cryptozoon lachutense Dawson 1896	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon occidentale Dawson 1896	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon proliferum Hall 1883	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon tealii Schuster 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon wrefordense corrig. Johnson 1946	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cryptozoon wrefordensis Johnson 1946	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling

Parent taxon: [Miscellanea, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 50365