Mastigomycotina

Mastigomycotina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Eumycota
Subdivision:	Mastigomycotina; Ainsworth and Bisby, 1971
Classes
	Chytridiomycetes ; Hyphochytridiomycetes ; Oomycetes

Last updated September 18, 2025

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.

References

↑ Sparrow, F. K. (1973). Mastigomigotina (zoosporic fungi). In: Ainsworth, G.C., Sparrow, F.K. & Sussman, A.S. (eds). The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, vol IV B. Academic Press, New York, pp. 61-73, . From Barr (2001), .
↑ Wong, G. J.: Classification of Fungi . URL last accessed 2007-04-03.

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[1] Sparrow, F. K. (1973). Mastigomigotina (zoosporic fungi). In: Ainsworth, G.C., Sparrow, F.K. & Sussman, A.S. (eds). The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, vol IV B. Academic Press, New York, pp. 61-73, . From Barr (2001), .

[2] Wong, G. J.: Classification of Fungi . URL last accessed 2007-04-03.

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