Pimascovirales

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

Last updated March 18, 2025

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

Families

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

Suborder: Ocovirineae
- Hydriviridae
- Orpheoviridae
- Pithoviridae
Families not assigned to a suborder:
- Ascoviridae
- Iridoviridae
- Marseilleviridae

References

1 2 "Virus Taxonomy: 2024 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
↑ 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.

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[ictv-1] 1 2 "Virus Taxonomy: 2024 Release". International Committee 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.

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