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Fig. 64. Zoopagales, Family Zoopagaceae. (A-D) Zoopage phanera Dreohs. (A) 

 Parasitized amoeba with two haustoria from each of two hyphae. (B) Creeping hypha 

 with upright chains of conidia. (C) Early stage of sexual reproduction. (D) Mature 

 zygospore. (E-I) Endocochlus asteroides Drechs. (E) Large amoeba with stages of 

 infection and young thalli of fungus. (F) Coiled thalli of fungus producing zygospores 

 and sending out a long conidiiferous hypha (only basal portion drawn). (G) Portion 

 of fertile region of conidiiferous hypha. (H) Young stage of sexual reproduction. 

 (I) Mature zygospore. (Courtesy, Drechsler: Mycologia, 27(l):6-40.) 



relationship here. He believes that the latter as well as the Harpellaceae 

 and Genistellaceae are related and have affinities with the Syncephalideae 

 in the Mucorales as well as with the Entomophthorales. 



Order Eccrinales. Like the family Harpellaceae the members of this 

 order also grow as parasites attached to the wall of the alimentary canal, 

 stomach, intestine, or anal plates, of Arthropoda: insects, crustaceans, 

 myriapods, etc., both aquatic and land-inhabiting species. The genera 



