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Chytridiomycetes
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Chytridiomycetes () is a class of fungi. Members are found in soil, fresh water, and saline estuaries. They are first known from the Rhynie chert. It has recently been redefined to exclude the taxa Neocallimastigomycota and Monoblepharidomycetes, which are now a phylum and a sister-class respectively.
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- KingdomFungi
- PhylumChytridiomycota
- ClassChytridiomycetes
壺菌綱（學名：Chytridiomycetes）是真菌下的一綱。它們可以分佈在土壤、淡水及鹹水河口中。它們是原始的真菌，最初是在英國的瑞尼燧石中發現。最年它們的分類重新編排，排除了Neocallimastigomycota及Monoblepharidomycetes及將它們分別提升為門及其姊妹綱。又將擬油壺菌屬及Hypochytrium分類在其下。 壺菌綱是壺菌門下的主要綱，會造成如水蚤屬及兩棲類等生物的寄生性感染，
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Chytridiomycetes () is a class of fungi. Members are found in soil, fresh water, and saline estuaries. They are first known from the Rhynie chert. It has recently been redefined to exclude the taxa Neocallimastigomycota and Monoblepharidomycetes, which are now a phylum and a sister-class respectively.
Chytridiomycetes is the major class of the phylum Chytridiomycota, which contains a number of parasitic species. At least two species in this class are known to infect a number of amphibian species.
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