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Saprolegniales

(water moulds) An order of the *Oomycetes containing some 32 genera and about 200 species of aquatic, mainly saprobic, fungi (e.g. Saprolegnia), often with *diplanetic zoospores. Some are parasitic on fish, e.g. S. parasitica, which often attacks salmon and goldfish.

 
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