AuthorFitzpatrick, H.M.
Year1930
TitleThe Lower Fungi: Phycomycetes
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteRepresentative species from all over the world.
SourceFirst edition edition, 331pp, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc
IllustrationsWell illustrated with line and stipple drawings
Review (by Malcolm Storey)A nice overview of some of the more obscure groups of primitive fungi and fungus-like organisms. Most of the genera still stand, but the taxonomy is now very dated and the names must be used with care. The copious illustrations remain useful.
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Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
CurrentOOMYCETESa group of mainly plant-parasitic "fungi"Chromista
CurrentCHYTRIDIOMYCETESchytridomycete fungi, chytridsFungi
CurrentZYGOMYCETESpin mouldsFungi
CurrentPLASMODIOPHORIDAEa family of protozoansProtozoa: Plasmodiophorida
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