Chytridiomycetes

Chytridiomycetes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Chytridiomycota
Class:	Chytridiomycetes; Caval.-Sm (1998)
Orders
	Chytridiales; Cladochytriales; Gromochytriales; Lobulomycetales; Mesochytriales; Nephridiophagales; Polychytriales; Polyphagales; Rhizophydiales; Rhizophlyctidales; Saccopodiales; Spizellomycetales; Synchytriales;
Synonyms
	Archimycetes Fischer 1892; Chytridiomycetidae Scagel et al. 1965; Rumpomycetes Cavalier-Smith 1987; Rupomycetidae Cavalier-Smith 1998 emend. 2013; Spizomycetidae Cavalier-Smith 1998;

Chytridiomycetes (/kɪˌtrɪdioʊmaɪˈsiːtiːz, -ˈsiːts/) 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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