Asfarviridae

Asfarviridae is a family of viruses, the best-studied of which is African swine fever virus, which are double-stranded DNA viruses.^[1]

Asfarviridae
African swine fever virus particle
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm:	Varidnaviria
Kingdom:	Bamfordvirae
Phylum:	Nucleocytoviricota
Class:	Pokkesviricetes
Order:	Asfuvirales
Family:	Asfarviridae
Genera
See text

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

1. 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.
2. "Virus Taxonomy: 2022 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.