Tevenvirinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of viruses}}

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| taxon = Tevenvirinae

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Tevenvirinae is a subfamily of viruses in the family Straboviridae of class Caudoviricetes.{{cite journal |author1=Turner D |author2=Shkoporov AN |author3=Lood C |author4=Millard AD |author5=Dutilh BE |author6=Alfenas-Zerbini P |author7=van Zyl LJ |author8=Aziz RK |author9=Oksanen HM |author10=Poranen MM |author11=Kropinski AM |author12=Barylski J |author13=Brister JR |author14=Chanisvili N |author15=Edwards RA |author16=Enault F |author17=Gillis A |author18=Knezevic P |author19=Krupovic M |author20=Kurtböke I |author21=Kushkina A |author22=Lavigne R |author23=Lehman S |author24=Lobocka M |author25=Moraru C |author26=Moreno Switt A |author27=Morozova V |author28=Nakavuma J |author29=Reyes Muñoz A |author30=Rūmnieks J |author31=Sarkar BL |author32=Sullivan MB |author33=Uchiyama J |author34=Wittmann J |author35=Yigang T |author36=Adriaenssens EM |title=Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee |journal=Archives of Virology |volume=168 |issue=2 |pages=74 |date=January 2023 |pmid=36683075 |pmc=9868039 |doi=10.1007/s00705-022-05694-2}} The subfamily was previously placed in the morphology-based family Myoviridae, which was found to be paraphyletic in genome studies and abolished in the 2021 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classification.{{cite web|title=Virus Taxonomy: 2024 Release|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=7 March 2025}} Bacteria and archaea serve as natural hosts. The subfamily contains 15 genera.