Chytridiomycota

Translingual

Etymology

Chytridium +‎ -mycota. The first part of the compound is borrowed from Ancient Greek χύτρα (khútra, “earthen pot”).

Proper noun

Chytridiomycota

1. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Eomycota – certain primitive fungi, sometimes treated as a division.

Hypernyms

• (phylum in subkingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom

Hyponyms

• (phylum in subkingdom): Blastocladiomycetes (syn Allomycetes), Chytridiomycetes, Monoblepharidomycetes - classes

See also

• chytrid
• Blastocladiomycota

References

• Chytridiomycota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chytridiomycota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chytridiomycota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chytridiomycota at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Chytridiomycota at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248