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Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. At some point, animals and fungi diverged. One developed an internal sac through which it digested its nutrients (animals) while the other digested nutrients externally using enzymes to break them down (fungi). Around 120,000 species have been described, but estimates of the total amount of fungal species can be from 2.2 to 3.8 million.

Higher Taxonomy of Fungi
Opisthokont Holozoa ⊞ ⊟ Ichthyosporea Pluriformea Corallochytrium Syssomonas Filozoa Filasterea Choanozoa Choanoflagellatea Animalia animal‑like Holomycota Cristidiscoidea ⊞(outgroup) Fonticulida Parvularia Nucleariida ⊟ Opisthosporidia BCG2 FRESHOL1 BCG1 Cryptomycota Rozella Namako-37 Microsporidia Metchnikovellea Microsporea Aphelida Fungi true fungi fungi fungus‑like animals and fungi

Major Phyla of Fungi

See also: List of fungal orders Main groups of fungi. Proposed by Tederoso et al. in 2016: Fungi ⊞ ⊟ Rozellomycota Aphelidiomycota Blastocladiomycota Neocallimastigomycota Monoblepharomycota Chytridiomycota Basidiobolomycota Olpidiomycota Entomophthoromycota Zoopagomycota Kickxellomycota Mortierellomycota Calcarisporiellomycota Mucoromycota Glomeromycota Proposed by Krüger et al in 2011: (slightly modified) Fungi division Chytridiomycota division Kickxellomycotina division Blastocladiomycota division Mucoromycota (2 classes, 3 orders, 61 genera, 325 species) subkingdom Dikarya Entorrhizomycota (1 class, 2 orders, 3 genera) Ascomycota (3 subdivisions, 20 classes) Basidiomycota (3 subdivisions, 18 classes) higher fungi Glomeromycota (1 class, 4 orders) In this treatment, we will focus on the higher fungi (Dikarya) and Glomeromycota.