Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-731.00.00
Neocallimastigomycetes
Clades: Chitridiomycota, Basidiomycota, Fungi, Plants.
Mycology: anaerobic fungi; symbionts in the digestive tracts of larger herbivores.
Taxonomy
Anaerobic fungi were originally placed within phylum Chytridiomycota. Later they were raised to phylum level, on the grounds of later phylogenetic reconstructions.
In the Plant theory Neocallimastigomycetes is a subclass in the Class Chitridiomycota.
Order: Neocallimastigales
Family: Neocallimastigaceae
Genera: Anaeromyces, Buwchfawromyces, Caecomyces, Cyllamyces, Neocallimastix, Oontomyces, Orpinomyces, Pecoramyces, Piromyces.