''Chytriomyces'' is the type
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in the
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Chytriomycetaceae
The ''Chytriomycetaceae'' are a family of fungi in the order Chytridiales
Fungi of the order Chytridiales, like other members of its division, may either have a monocentric thallus or a polycentric rhizomycelium. When the ribosomal genes of ...
. The genus was described by mycologist
John Sidney Karling
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in 1945.
The family, created by Peter Letcher in 2011, contains species with a Group I-type
zoospore
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, distinguishing it from
Chytridiaceae
The ''Chytridiaceae'' are a family of fungi in the order Chytridiales. The family contains 33 genera and 238 species according to a 2008 estimate.
Genera
*''Chytridium
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members, which have a Group II-type zoospore.
Taxonomy
J. S. Karling circumscribed ''Chytriomyces'' in 1945 for the species ''C. hyalinus'' and ''C. aureus''. The genus was intended to include monocentric chytrids with operculate, apophysate, epibiotic zoosporangia that exhibited vesicular zoospore discharge. Another requirement was resting spores that function as prosporangia during germination.
With time and the addition of species, the generic concept was altered to include species lacking one or more of these features.
Karling was not clear as to which of his species was the type; ''C. hyalinus'' was later designated the type.
[ With the use of molecular phylogenetics, it has been determined that several species in this genus did not belong. For example, it was shown that ''C. poculatus'' and ''C. angularis'' were better classified in the new genus ''Lobulomyces''. ]
Species
*'' C. appendiculatus''
*'' C. aureus''
*'' C. closterii''
*'' C. confervae''
*'' C. cosmaridis''
*''C. elegans
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*'' C. fructicosus''
*'' C. gilgaiensis''
*'' C. heliozoicola''
*'' C. hyalinus''
*'' C. laevis''
*'' C. lucidus''
*'' C. macro-operculatus''
*'' C. mammillifer''
*'' C. mortierellae''
*'' C. multioperculatus''
*'' C. nagatoroensis''
*'' C. parasiticus''
*'' C. reticulatus''
*'' C. reticulosporus''
*'' C. rhizidiomycetis''
*'' C. rotoruaensis''
*'' C. stellatus''
*'' C. suburceolatus''
*'' C. tabellariae''
*'' C. vallesiacus''
*'' C. verrucosus''
*'' C. willoughbyi''
References
External links
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Chytridiomycota genera
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