 The Greek termination, "-mastix", referring to "whips", i.e.the many flagella on these fungi, is changed to "-mastig-" when combined with additional terminations in Latinized names.The family name Neocallimastigaceae was originally incorrectly published as "Neocallimasticaceae" by the publishing authors which led to the coinage of the misspelled, hence incorrect "Neocallimasticales", an easily forgiven error considering that other "-ix" endings such as "Salix" goes to Salicaceae.