Asfarviridae
Asfarviridae is a family of viruses, the best-studied of which is African swine fever virus, which are double-stranded DNA viruses. A 2025 genomic-analysis study comparing many of the so-called “extended Asfarviridae” viruses found that these lineages are so genetically divergent that they likely represent multiple distinct viral families rather than a single “extended Asfarviridae” group. This suggests that the diversity of giant dsDNA viruses related to ASFV is far greater than previously recognised, and that taxonomic re-classification may be required.
Taxonomy
There is only one species under Asfarviridae in ICTV 2022:- Genus Asfivirus
- * Species African swine fever virus
- Abalone asfarvirus
- Dinodnavirus
- Faustovirus
- Kaumoebavirus
- Pacmanvirus
- Additional genomes known from environmental sampling of diverse marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats