Chytriomyces is the type genus of fungi in the family Chytriomycetaceae.

[2] J. S. Karling circumscribed Chytriomyces in 1945 for the species C. hyalinus and C. aureus.

The genus was intended to include monocentric chytrids with operculate, apophysate, epibiotic zoosporangia that exhibited vesicular zoospore discharge.

Another requirement was resting spores that function as prosporangia during germination.

[4] With the use of molecular phylogenetics, it has been determined that several species in this genus did not belong.