Asfarviridae

African swine fever virus particle
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm:	Varidnaviria
Kingdom:	Bamfordvirae
Phylum:	Nucleocytoviricota
Class:	Pokkesviricetes
Order:	Asfuvirales
Family:	*Asfarviridae*
Genera
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Asfarviridae is a family of viruses, the best-studied of which is African swine fever virus, which are double-stranded DNA viruses.^[1]

Taxonomy

There is only one species under Asfarviridae in ICTV 2022:

Genus Asfivirus^[2]
- Species African swine fever virus^[1]^[2]

But, there may be more viruses:

Abalone asfarvirus^[3]^[1]
Dinodnavirus (Heterocapsa circularisquama DNA virus or hcDNAV)^[1]
Faustovirus^[1]
Kaumoebavirus^[1]^[4]
Pacmanvirus^[1]^[5]
Additional genomes known from environmental sampling of diverse marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Karki, Sangita; Moniruzzaman, Mohammad; Aylward, Frank O. (2021). "Comparative Genomics and Environmental Distribution of Large dsDNA Viruses in the Family Asfarviridae". Frontiers in Microbiology. 12: 657471. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.657471. PMC 8005611. PMID 33790885.
^ ^a ^b "Virus Taxonomy: 2022 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ Matsuyama, Tomomasa; Takano, Tomokazu; Nishiki, Issei; Fujiwara, Atushi; Kiryu, Ikunari; Inada, Mari; Sakai, Takamitsu; Terashima, Sachiko; Matsuura, Yuta; Isowa, Kiyoshi; Nakayasu, Chihaya (2020). "A novel Asfarvirus-like virus identified as a potential cause of mass mortality of abalone". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 4620. Bibcode:2020NatSR..10.4620M. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-61492-3. PMC 7067878. PMID 32165658.
^ Bajrai, Leena; Benamar, Samia; Azhar, Esam; Robert, Catherine; Levasseur, Anthony; Raoult, Didier; La Scola, Bernard (2016). "Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae". Viruses. 8 (11): 278. doi:10.3390/v8110278. PMC 5127008. PMID 27801826.
^ Andreani, Julien; Khalil, Jacques Yaacoub Bou; Sevvana, Madhumati; Benamar, Samia; Di Pinto, Fabrizio; Bitam, Idir; Colson, Philippe; Klose, Thomas; Rossmann, Michael G.; Raoult, Didier; La Scola, Bernard (2017). "Pacmanvirus, a New Giant Icosahedral Virus at the Crossroads between Asfarviridae and Faustoviruses". Journal of Virology. 91 (14): e00212–17. doi:10.1128/JVI.00212-17. PMC 5487549. PMID 28446673.