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. 2025 Jun;106(6):002077.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.002077.

Annual (2024) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota)

Jens H Kuhn  1 Scott Adkins  2 Sergey V Alkhovsky  3 Wenxia An  4 Tatjana Avšič-Županc  5 María A Ayllón  6   7 Katarina Bačnik  8 Justin Bahl  9   10 Anne Balkema-Buschmann  11 Matthew J Ballinger  12 Martin Beer  13 Nicolas Bejerman  14 Éric Bergeron  15 Nadine Biedenkopf  16 Carol D Blair  17 Kim R Blasdell  18 Steven B Bradfute  19 Thomas Briese  20 Katherine Brown  21 Paul A Brown  22 Ursula J Buchholz  23 Michael J Buchmeier  24 Alexander Bukreyev  25 Felicity Burt  26 Charles H Calisher  27 Sten Calvelage  13 Mengji Cao  28 Inmaculada Casas  29 Camila Chabi-Jesus  30 Kartik Chandran  31 Rémi N Charrel  32 Anya Crane  1 Laura N Cuypers  33   34 Elena Dal Bó  35 Juan Carlos de la Torre  36 William M de Souza  37 Rik L de Swart  38 Humberto J Debat  39   40 Nolwenn M Dheilly  41 Nicholas Di Paola  42 Francesco Di Serio  43 Ralf G Dietzgen  44 Michele Digiaro  45 J Felix Drexler  46 W Paul Duprex  47 Ralf Dürrwald  48 Andrew J Easton  49 Toufic Elbeaino  45 Koray Ergünay  50   51   52 Mirette I Y Eshak  13 Guozhong Feng  53 Andrew E Firth  21 Anthony R Fooks  54 Pierre B H Formenty  55 Juliana Freitas-Astúa  56 Conrad M Freuling  57 Tuija Gadd  58 Selma Gago-Zachert  59 María Laura García  60 Adolfo García-Sastre  61 Aura R Garrison  42 Tony L Goldberg  62 Jean-Paul J Gonzalez  63 Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq  64 Anthony Griffiths  65 Martin H Groschup  66 Sophie Gryseels  33 Ion Gutiérrez-Aguirre  8 Stephan Günther  67 John Hammond  68   69 Jussi Hepojoki  70   71 Masayuki Horie  72   73 Adam J Hume  74 Timothy H Hyndman  75 Dirk Höper  13 Dàohóng Jiāng  76 Sandra Junglen  77 Boris Klempa  78 Jonas Klingström  79 Hideki Kondō  80 Eugene V Koonin  81 Mart Krupovic  82 Kenji Kubota  83 Gael Kurath  84 Denis Kutnjak  8 Lies Laenen  85 Amy J Lambert  86 Benhur Lee  87 Chengyu Li  4 Jiànróng Lǐ  88 Jun-Min Li  89 Igor S Lukashevich  90 Piet Maes  91 Marco Marklewitz  92 Sergio H Marshall  93 Shin-Yi L Marzano  94 John W McCauley  95 Nataša Mehle  8   96 Ali Mirazimi  97 Toshiyuki Morikawa  98 Elke Mühlberger  74 Thomas Müller  57 Rayapati Naidu  99 Tomohide Natsuaki  100 Beatriz Navarro  43 José A Navarro  101 Yutaro Neriya  102 Sergey V NetesovVittorio M Nicoloso  43 Gabriele Neumann  103 Tiina Nokireki  58 Norbert Nowotny  104   105 Márcio R T Nunes  106 Francisco M Ochoa-Corona  107 Gustavo Palacios  87 Vicente Pallás  108 Anna Papa  109 Sofia Paraskevopoulou  110 Colin R Parrish  111 Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa  112 Anja Pecman  8 Daniel R Pérez  113 Florian Pfaff  13 Richard K Plemper  114 Thomas S Postler  115 Sheli R Radoshitzky  116 Pedro L Ramos-González  117 Maja Ravnikar  8 Renato O Resende  118 Gábor Reuter  119 Carina A Reyes  120 Mark Paul Selda Rivarez  121   122 Víctor Romanowski  120 Dennis Rubbenstroth  13 Luisa Rubino  43 Jonathan A Runstadler  123 Ana Ruiz-Padilla  6 Sead Sabanadzovic  124 Maria S Salvato  125 Takahide Sasaya  126 Connie S Schmaljohn  1 Heike Schmidt-Posthaus  127 Martin Schwemmle  128 Gabrijel Seljak  8 Torsten Seuberlich  129 Mang Shi  130 Yoshifumi Shimomoto  131 Peter Simmonds  132 Manuela Sironi  133 Donald B Smith  132 Sophie Smither  134 Jin-Won Song  135 Kirsten M Spann  136 Jessica R Spengler  15 Mark D Stenglein  137 Ayato Takada  138 Chika Takemura  139 Niina Tammiranta  58 Robert B Tesh  25 Natalie J Thornburg  140 Nicole D Tischler  141 Yasuhiro Tomitaka  142 Keizō Tomonaga  143 Noël Tordo  144 Massimo Turina  145 Ioannis E Tzanetakis  146 Anna Maria Vaira  145 Bernadette van den Hoogen  147 Bert Vanmechelen  148 Nikos Vasilakis  25 Martin Verbeek  149 Susanne von Bargen  150 Ana Vučurović  8 Jiro Wada  1 Victoria Wahl  151 Peter J Walker  152 Fei Wang  153 Anna E Whitfield  154 John V Williams  155 Yuri I Wolf  81 Hironobu Yanagisawa  156 Caixia Yang  4 Gongyin Ye  157 Mei Chun Yu  4 F Murilo Zerbini  158 Song Zhang  28 Arnfinn Lodden Økland  159 Holly R Hughes  86
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Annual (2024) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota)

Jens H Kuhn et al. J Gen Virol. 2025 Jun.

Abstract

In April 2024, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was expanded by 1 new order, 1 new family, 6 new subfamilies, 34 new genera and 270 new species. One class, two orders and six species were renamed. Seven families and 12 genera were moved; ten species were renamed and moved; and nine species were abolished. This article presents the updated taxonomy of Negarnaviricota as currently accepted by the ICTV, providing an essential annual update on the classification of members of this phylum that deepen understandings of their evolution, and supports critical public health measures for virus identification and tracking.

Keywords: Aliusviridae; Arenaviridae; Articulavirales; Artoviridae; Aspiviridae; Bornaviridae; Bunyavirales; Bunyaviricetes; Crepuscuviridae; Discoviridae; Elliovirales; Filoviridae; Fimoviridae; Goujianvirales; Hantaviridae; Hareavirales; International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV); Jingchuvirales; Konkoviridae; Lispiviridae; Mononegavirales; Muvirales; Mymonaviridae; Myriaviridae; Naedrevirales; Nairoviridae; Natareviridae; Negarnaviricota; Nyamiviridae; Orthomyxoviridae; Orthornavirae; Paramyxoviridae; Peribunyaviridae; Phasmaviridae; Phenuiviridae; Pneumoviridae; Rhabdoviridae; Riboviria; Sunviridae; Tenuivirus; Tosoviridae; Tospoviridae; Tulasviridae; articulaviral; bunyaviral; bunyavirus; jingchuviral; megaclassification; megataxonomy; mononegaviral; muviral; naedreviral; negarnaviricot; virus classification; virus nomenclature; virus taxonomy.

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