Kitrinoviricota

Kitrinoviricota is a phylum of RNA viruses that includes all positive-strand RNA viruses that infect eukaryotes and are not members of the phylum Pisuviricota or Lenarviricota.^[1] The name of the group derives from Greek κίτρινος (kítrinos), which means yellow (a reference to yellow fever virus), and -viricota, which is the suffix for a virus phylum.^[2]

Kitrinoviricota
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm:	Riboviria
Kingdom:	Orthornavirae
Phylum:	Kitrinoviricota
Classes
See text

Classes

Phylogenetic tree of Kitrinoviricota (top), genome of different members and major conserved proteins (bottom)

The following classes are recognized:

• Alsuviricetes
• Flasuviricetes
• Magsaviricetes
• Tolucaviricetes