Entomophthoromycota

Entomophthoromycota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Entomophthoromycota
Humber (2013)
Class
  • Basidiobolomycetes
  • Neozygitomycetes
  • Entomophthoromycetes

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)
Class Neozygitomycetes Humber
Order Neozygitales Humber
Family Neozygitaceae Ben Ze’ev, R.G.Kenneth & Uziel
Apterivorax, Neozygites, Thaxterosporium
Class Entomophthoromycetes Humber
Order Entomophthorales G.Winter
Family Ancylistaceae J.Schröt.
Ancylistes, Conidiobolus, Macrobiotophthora
Family Completoriaceae Humber
Completoria
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
Family Meristacraceae Humber
Meristacrum, Tabanomyces

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. 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.
  2. Humber RA. (2012). "Entomophthoromycota: A new phylum and reclassification for entomophthoroid fungi". Mycotaxon 120: 477–492. doi:10.5248/120.477.


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