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Pimascovirales

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Pimascovirales
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Varidnaviria
Kingdom: Bamfordvirae
Phylum: Nucleocytoviricota
Class: Megaviricetes
Order: Pimascovirales

Pimascovirales is an order of viruses.[1] The term is a portmanteau of a portmanteau of pitho-, irido-, marseille-, and ascoviruses.[2]

Families

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Pimascovirales contains six families, three of which are assigned to a suborder. This taxonomy is shown hereafter:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Virus Taxonomy: 2024 Release". International Commitee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  2. ^ Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH (October 2019). "Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for DNA viruses encoding vertical jelly roll-type major capsid proteins". ICTV Proposal (Taxoprop): 2019.003G. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.14886.47684.