PYTHIACEAE J. Schröt.
(damping off and blight fungi)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Globisporangium a genus of fungoid organisms					Genus	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
Pythium damping off fungi					Genus	1 subtaxa		2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	PYTHIACEAE (damping off and blight fungi)
Order	PERONOSPORALES (downy mildews and white rusts)
Class	PERONOSPOREA (a class of fungoid organisms)
Phylum	OOMYCOTA (a group of mainly plant-parasitic fungi)
Kingdom	CHROMISTA (algae)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PYTHIACEAE is also a member of:
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Oomycota)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Oomycota)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

PYTHIACEAE (damping off and blight fungi) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PERONOSPORALES
(downy mildews and white rusts)

OOMYCOTA
(a group of mainly plant-parasitic fungi)

CHROMISTA
(algae)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PYTHIACEAE (damping off and blight fungi)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 8 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PYTHIACEAE (damping off and blight fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PYTHIACEAE is also a member of:

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