Peploviricota

Peploviricota is a phylum of viruses that holds the herpesviruses, which infect animals. It has one class, Herviviricetes, and that class has one order, Herpesvirales, according to the Wikipedia article on that order. In the classification of the realm Duplodnaviria it is one of two phyla in the single kingdom Heunggongvirae, the other being Uroviricota, which contains the tailed viruses of bacteria and archaea. All viruses in the realm are double-stranded DNA viruses that encode the HK97 fold major capsid protein, and the herpesviruses are the lineage that infects animals, which are eukaryotes, and are commonly associated with diseases such as herpes and chickenpox. The phylum therefore stands for the whole animal-infecting herpesvirus lineage of the realm.