The phrase "a kind called" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a specific type or category of something, often followed by the name or description of that kind.
Example: "There is a kind called 'sustainable agriculture' that focuses on environmentally friendly farming practices."
Alternatives: "a type known as" or "a variety referred to as".
The girls looked blankly past this explanation, but they were intrigued by one of the small prizes of the show: a nineteenth-century composite skeleton — a monkey skull attached to the tail of a fish — of a kind called a Feejee Mermaid, which may conceivably be the very same one that P. T. Barnum showed at his museum here, back in the nineteenth century.
Most farmers use a kind called metaldehyde a substance that, in Britain, has been restricted after it was found in drinking water.
Of all the different types of bacteria that live in your mouth, the most pungent, by far, are a kind called "gram-negative". Not only do they produce gassy-smelling sulfuric compounds, but they also have an extra cell layer that makes them especially resilient.
And in another study, University of Oregon researchers found that mindfulness meditation -- particularly a kind called integrative body-mind training -- is linked with an increase in the brain's signaling connections (called axonal density), as well as the protective tissue that surrounds the brain's axons.
The micro-organisms belong to a kind called Frankia, and like rhizobia they help the tree to acquire nitrogen.
This definition fails to capture the sophist by even an accidental feature, but instead snares a distinct kind called by the same name owing to a superficial resemblance.
I received a kind call from Wayne's manager Cortez Bryant thanking us for including him.
The object of his first great embrace was photography of a particular kind, called Pictorialism, which emulated the soft-focus effects of late-19th-century Symbolist painting.
The meteorite is a relatively rare kind called a carbonaceous chondrite, which contains carbon and organic compounds.
If your car has faulty mechanics of any kind, call a licensed mechanic immediately.
One Christmas his father bought his mother a beautiful necklace, of the kind called a "lavalliere".
