Mastigomycotina
Former subdivision of fungi
| Mastigomycotina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Eumycota |
| Subdivision: | Mastigomycotina Ainsworth and Bisby, 1971 |
| Classes | |
| Chytridiomycetes | |
Mastigomycotina is a former polyphyletic taxonomic grouping, a subdivision, of fungi, similar to Phycomycetes, and that included the zoosporic classes Chytridiomycetes, Hyphochytriomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes and Oomycetes.[1]
General features of Mastigomycotina:[2]
- They produce flagellated cells during their lifetime.
- May bear rhizoids.
- Mostly, filamentous and having coenocytic mycelium.
- Show centric nuclear division.
- Perfect state of spores is typically oospores.
See also
- Fungus-like organisms
References
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