Cryptobacterium

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Cryptobacterium

| authority = Nakazawa et al. 1999{{cite web |author=A.C. Parte |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/cryptobacterium |title=Cryptobacterium |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) |display-authors=et al.}}

| type_species = Cryptobacterium curtum

| type_species_authority = Nakazawa et al. 1999

| subdivision_ranks = Species{{cite web |author=C.L. Schoch |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=84162&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Cryptobacterium |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}

| 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).{{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}}{{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}}