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. See also Fungus-like organisms References Obsolete fungus taxa