Allomyces

Allomyces
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Blastocladiomycota
Class:	Blastocladiomycetes
Order:	Blastocladiales
Family:	Blastocladiaceae
Genus:	Allomyces; E.J.Butler (1911)
Type species
	Allomyces arbusculus; E.J.Butler (1911)
Synonyms
	Septocladia Coker & F.A.Grant (1922);

Allomyces is a genus of chytrid fungi in the family Blastocladiaceae. It was circumscribed by British mycologist Edwin John Butler in 1911. Species in the genus have a polycentric thallus and reproduce asexually by zoospores that have a whiplash-like flagella. They are mostly isolated from soils in tropical countries, commonly in ponds, rice fields, and slow-moving rivers.^[2]

Species

Allomyces anomalus R.Emers. 1941
Allomyces arbusculus E.J.Butler 1911
Allomyces catenoides Sparrow 1964
Allomyces cystogenus R.Emers. 1941
Allomyces javanicus Kniep 1929
Allomyces macrogynus (R.Emers.) R.Emers. & C.M.Wilson 1954
Allomyces moniliformis Coker & Braxton 1926
Allomyces neomoniliformis Indoh 1940
Allomyces reticulatus R. Emers. & J.A.Robertson 1974
Allomyces strangulata Minden 1916

References

^ "Synonymy: Allomyces E.J. Butler, Ann. Bot., Lond. 25: 1027 (1911)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
^ Sharma PD. (2005). Fungi and Allied Organisms. Alpha Science International. pp. 145–6. ISBN 978-1-84265-277-0.

External links

Allomyces in Index Fungorum

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[urlFungorum:_Allomyces-1] "Synonymy: Allomyces E.J. Butler, Ann. Bot., Lond. 25: 1027 (1911)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-03-27.

[Sharma2005-2] Sharma PD. (2005). Fungi and Allied Organisms. Alpha Science International. pp. 145–6. ISBN 978-1-84265-277-0.

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