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Thallus monocentric or polycentric; anaerobic, found in digestive system of larger<br />

herbivorous mammals and possibly in other terrestrial and aquatic anaerobic<br />

environments; lacks mitochondria but contains hydrogenosomes of mitochondrial<br />

origin; zoospores posteriorly unflagellate or polyflagellate, kinetosome present but non-<br />

functional centriole absent, kinetosome-associated complex composed of a skirt, strut,<br />

spur and circumflagellar ring, microtubules extend from spur and radiate around<br />

nucleus, <strong>for</strong>ming a posterior fan, flagellar props absent; nuclear envelope remains intact<br />

throughout mitosis.<br />

Class: Neocallimastigomycetes M. J. Powell, class. nov.<br />

MycoBank no.: MB 501280<br />

Diagnosis latina ut in Neocallimastigomycota (vide supra).<br />

Typus: Neocallimastix Vavra & Joyon ex I.B. Heath 1983.<br />

Order: Neocallimastigales J. L. Li, I. B. Heath & L. Packer, Can. J. Bot. 71: 403 (1993).<br />

Exemplar genera: Neocallimastix Vavra & Joyon ex I.B. Heath 1983, Caecomyces J.J.<br />

Gold 1988, Orpinomyces D.J.S. Barr, H. Kudo, Jakober & K.J. Cheng 1989.<br />

Phylum: Blastocladiomycota T. Y. James, Mycologia 98: XXX (2007) [”2006”].<br />

Synonym: Allomycota Caval.-Sm., Bio<strong>System</strong>s 14: 465 (1981).This phylum was proposed<br />

to reflect phylogenetic in<strong>for</strong>mation from a number of molecular studies (James et al.<br />

2007; Liu et al. 2006). Equivalent to<br />

Class: Blastocladiomycetes T. Y. James, Mycologia 98: XXX (2007) [”2006”].<br />

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