Herviviricetes

Herviviricetes is the virus class that contains the herpesviruses, and it holds a single order, Herpesvirales. According to the Wikipedia article on Herpesvirales, the class is the only class in the phylum Peploviricota, so the ranks above and below it each have a single member in the lineage. The viruses in the class are double-stranded DNA viruses with animal hosts and an enveloped icosahedral virion, and the lineage includes the families of fish and frog herpesviruses, mollusc herpesviruses and the herpesviruses of reptiles, birds and mammals. In the classification given for the realm Duplodnaviria, Herviviricetes is the class under the phylum Peploviricota, set beside the phylum Uroviricota with its class of tailed bacterial and archaeal viruses. It lies in the realm Duplodnaviria and the kingdom Heunggongvirae.