Chytrids
Chytridiomycota
Chytridiomycota is a division of zoosporic organisms in the kingdom Fungi, informally known as chytrids. The name is derived from the Greek χυτρίδιον chytridion, meaning "little pot", describing the structure containing unreleased zoospores. Chytrids are one of the early diverging fungal lineages, and their membership in kingdom Fungi is demonstrated with chitin cell walls, a posterior whiplash flagellum, absorptive nutrition, use of glycogen as an energy storage compound, and synthesis of lysine by the α-amino adipic...
15 branches of this phylum, most-observed first
Synchytriomycetes
classSynchytriomycetes
Rhizophydiomycetes
classRhizophydiomycetes
Chytridiomycetes
classChytridiomycetes
Rhizophlyctidomycetes
classRhizophlyctidomycetes
Cladochytriomycetes
classCladochytriomycetes
Coenomyces
genusCoenomyces
Caulochytriomycetes
classCaulochytriomycetes
Spizellomycetes
classSpizellomycetes
Lobulomycetes
classLobulomycetes
Mesochytriomycetes
classMesochytriomycetes
Polychytriomycetes
classPolychytriomycetes
Aquieurochytriomycetes
classAquieurochytriomycetes
Edaphochytriomycetes
classEdaphochytriomycetes
Tibetochytriomycetes
classTibetochytriomycetes
Tropicochytriomycetes
classTropicochytriomycetes
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125609.