Cruliviridae is a family of virus in the order of
Bunyavirales
''Bunyavirales'' is an order of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses with mainly tripartite genomes. Member viruses infect arthropods, plants, protozoans, and vertebrates. It is the only order in the class ''Ellioviricetes''. The name ''Bunyavi ...
. Unlike other families in the order, this family is unique in the sense that it is only used to contain
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...
-infecting bunyaviruses.
Viruses
There have been numerous bunya-like viruses proposed to infect crustaceans such as
Crab Haemocytic virus,
Roscoff virus, and
Mourilyan virus. Only three,
''Lincruvirus europense'', ''
Lincruvirus sinense, and
Lincruvirus wenlingense,'' have been accepted by
ICTV.
References
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Virus families
RNA viruses
Bunyavirales