Alsuviricetes

{{Short description|Class of viruses}}

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Alsuviricetes is a class of positive-strand RNA viruses which infect eukaryotes.{{cite web|title=Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy|website=talk.ictvonline.org|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=25 April 2020}} The name of the group is a syllabic abbreviation of "alpha supergroup" with the suffix -viricetes indicating a virus class.{{Cite web|title=Proposal: Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for realm Riboviria|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy/taxondetails?taxnode_id=201907225|vauthors=Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH|website=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)|language=en|access-date=2020-05-21}}