Fungus phyla, traditionally called divisions, are usually four: the Chytridiomycota or chytrids, the Zygomycota or bread molds, the Ascomycota, which are the yeasts and sac fungi, and the Basidiomycota, the club fungi. Placement in a division is based on the way the fungus reproduces sexually, and the shape and internal structure of the sporangia that make the spores are the most useful features for telling them apart. Two conventional groups are not formal taxa because they are polyphyletic, the Deuteromycota, or fungi imperfecti, which have lost sexual reproduction, and the lichens, which are a symbiosis of a fungus and an alga.
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UC Museum of Paleontology: Systematics of the Fungi
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Fungi are usually classified in four divisions: the Chytridiomycota (chytrids), Zygomycota (bread molds), Ascomycota (yeasts and sac fungi), and the Basidiomycota (club fungi).
Basidiomycota (Wikipedia)
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The Basidiomycota () are one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi.
Ascomycota (Wikipedia)
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The Ascomycota are a phylum in the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, form the subkingdom Dikarya.
Mucoromycotina (Wikipedia)
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Mucoromycotina is a subphylum of uncertain placement in Fungi.
Glomeromycota (Wikipedia)
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Glomeromycota (often referred to as glomeromycetes, as they include only one class, Glomeromycetes) are one of eight currently recognized divisions within the kingdom Fungi, with approximately 230 described species.
Wikipedia: Blastocladiomycota
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Blastocladiomycota is part of a group of saprotrophic fungus that is one of the currently recognized phyla within the kingdom Fungi.
Wikipedia: Zoopagomycotina
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The Zoopagomycotina are a subdivision (incertae sedis) of the fungal division Zygomycota sensu lato.
Wikipedia: Microsporidia
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Microsporidia are a group of spore-forming parasitic unicellular fungi.
Chytridiomycota, Wikipedia
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Chytridiomycota are a division of zoosporic organisms in the kingdom Fungi, informally known as chytrids.
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