Lenarviricota
| Lenarviricota | |
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| TEMs of phylum Lenarviricota virions: Ourmia melon virus (left); narnaviruses and mitoviruses have no capsid or envelope (right); bacteriophages Qbeta attached to the pilus of E. coli (bottom) | |
| Virus classification | |
| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Lenarviricota |
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Lenarviricota is a phylum of RNA viruses that includes all positive-strand RNA viruses that infect prokaryotes. Some members also infect eukaryotes. Most of these viruses do not have capsids, except for the genus Ourmiavirus. The name of the group is a syllabic abbreviation of the names of founding member families "Leviviridae and Narnaviridae" with the suffix -viricota, denoting a virus phylum.