Peribunyaviridae

{{Short description|Family of viruses}}

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| image_caption = Peribunyavirus structure (left); transmission electron micrograph of California encephalitis virus (right)

| taxon = Peribunyaviridae

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Peribunyaviridae is a family of viruses{{cite journal |last1=Hughes |first1=HR |last2=Adkins |first2=S |last3=Alkhovskiy |first3=S |last4=Beer |first4=M |last5=Blair |first5=C|author6-link=Charles Calisher |last6=Calisher |first6=CH |last7=Drebot |first7=M |last8=Lambert |first8=AJ |last9=de Souza |first9=WM |last10=Marklewitz |first10=M |last11=Nunes |first11=MRT |last12=Shí 石晓宏 |first12=X |last13=ICTV Report Consortium |title=ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Peribunyaviridae. |journal=The Journal of General Virology |date=January 2020 |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=1–2 |doi=10.1099/jgv.0.001365 |pmid=31846417|pmc=7414433 }} in the order Elliovirales.{{cite web|title=Virus Taxonomy: 2024 Release|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=17 March 2025}} Its name partially derives from Bunyamwera, Uganda, where the founding species was first isolated.{{cite web |title=ICTV Report Peribunyaviridae |url=https://www.ictv.global/report/peribunyaviridae|quote=Orthobunyavirus: derived from Bunyamwera village (Uganda, Africa) where the type virus of the genus, Bunyamwera virus, was first isolated.}}