Entomophthoromycota
| Entomophthoromycota | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Entomophthoromycota Humber (2013) |
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Entomophthoromycota is a fungus division. Divided into three classes and six families (Ancylistaceae, Basidiobolaceae, Completoriaceae, Entomophthoraceae, Meristacraceae, and Neozygitaceae), it contains over 250 species that are mostly arthropod pathogens or soil- and litter-borne saprobes.[1]
Taxonomy
Circumscribed by mycologist Richard Humber in 2012, it contains species formerly classified in the division Zygomycota. Humber's reorganization divides the division into three classes while retaining the previously defined family structure:[2]
Division Entomophthoromycota Humber
- Class Basidiobolomycetes Humber
- Order Basidiobolales Caval.-Sm.
- Family Basidiobolaceae Claussen
- Basidiobolus (plus undescribed new genera)
- Family Basidiobolaceae Claussen
- Order Basidiobolales Caval.-Sm.
- Class Neozygitomycetes Humber
- Order Neozygitales Humber
- Family Neozygitaceae Ben Ze’ev, R.G.Kenneth & Uziel
- Apterivorax, Neozygites, Thaxterosporium
- Family Neozygitaceae Ben Ze’ev, R.G.Kenneth & Uziel
- Order Neozygitales Humber
- Class Entomophthoromycetes Humber
- Order Entomophthorales G.Winter
- Family Ancylistaceae J.Schröt.
- Ancylistes, Conidiobolus, Macrobiotophthora
- Family Completoriaceae Humber
- Family Entomophthoraceae Nowak.
- Subfamily Erynioideae S.Keller
- Erynia, Eryniopsis (in part), Furia, Orthomyces, Pandora, Strongwellsea, Zoophthora
- Subfamily Entomophthoroideae S.Keller
- Batkoa, Entomophaga, Entomophthora, Eryniopsis (in part), Massospora
- Subfamily Erynioideae S.Keller
- Family Meristacraceae Humber
- Meristacrum, Tabanomyces
- Family Ancylistaceae J.Schröt.
- Order Entomophthorales G.Winter
Genera that have an uncertain status or have been excluded from the Entomophthoromycota include Ballocephala, Tarichium, and Zygnemomyces.[1]
Description
Species in the Entomophthoromycota generally share several characteristics. Their vegetative cells are coenocytic; sporulation occurs by production of forcibly discharged dispersive or infective conidia; and their zygospores (which also function as resting spores) are homothallic.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Gryganskyi AP, Humber RA, Smith ME, Hodge K, Huang B, Voigt K, Vilgalys R. (2013). "Phylogenetic lineages in Entomophthoromycota". Persoonia 30: 94–105. doi:10.3767/003158513X666330.
- ↑ Humber RA. (2012). "Entomophthoromycota: A new phylum and reclassification for entomophthoroid fungi". Mycotaxon 120: 477–492. doi:10.5248/120.477.