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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]