{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Cryptobacterium | authority = Nakazawa et al. 1999<ref name=LPSN>{{lpsn3|genus/cryptobacterium|Cryptobacterium}}</ref> | type_species = ''Cryptobacterium curtum'' | type_species_authority = Nakazawa et al. 1999 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=NCBI>{{cite web |author=C.L. Schoch |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?command=show&mode=tree&id=84162&lvl=3 |title=Cryptobacterium |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}</ref> | subdivision = * ''C. curtum'' }}

'''''Cryptobacterium''''' is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Coriobacteriaceae. Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Cryptobacterium curtum).<ref name=LPSN/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hoshino|first1=Etsuro|title=Cryptobacterium curtum gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of Gram-positive anaerobic rod isolated from human oral cavities|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=July 1999|volume=49|issue=3|pages=1193–1200|doi=10.1099/00207713-49-3-1193|pmid=10425779|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mavrommatis|first1=Konstantinos|title=Complete genome sequence of Cryptobacterium curtum type strain (12-3^T)|journal=Standards in Genomic Sciences|date=September 24, 2009|volume=1|issue=2|pages=93–100|doi=10.4056/sigs.12260|pmid=21304644|pmc=3035227}}</ref>

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Category:Coriobacteriaceae Category:Monotypic bacteria genera Category:Bacteria genera

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