Mastigomycotina

Mastigomycotina is a former polyphyletic taxonomic grouping, a subdivision, of fungi, similar to Phycomycetes, and that included the zoosporic classes Chytridiomycetes, Hyphochytriomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes and Oomycetes.

General features of Mastigomycotina:


 * They produce flagellated cells during their lifetime.
 * May bear rhizoids.
 * Mostly, filamentous and having coenocytic mycelium.
 * Show centric nuclear division.
 * Perfect state of spores is typically oospores.