Family: Hantaviridae

Subfamily: Mammantavirinae

Distinguishing features

Mammantavirins infect mammals, including bats, soricid and talpid eulipotyphla, muroid amd possibly dipodoid rodents (Guo et al., 2013, Xu et al., 2015, Straková et al., 2017, Yashina et al., 2019, Kang et al., 2009, Sumibcay et al., 2012, Weiss et al., 2012, Arai et al., 2013, Arai et al., 2016b, Kouadio et al., 2020, Dafalla et al., 2023, Gu et al., 2014a, Gu et al., 2014b, Laenen et al., 2015, Gu et al., 2016, Arai et al., 2019b, Xu et al., 2019, Cuperus et al., 2022, Gu et al., 2023, Kikuchi et al., 2023, Carey et al., 1971, Song et al., 2009, Arai et al., 2013, Witkowski et al., 2016, Sun et al., 2017, Arai et al., 2019a, Kang et al., 2019, Zana et al., 2019, Weiss et al., 2022, Jonsson et al., 2010, Guo et al., 2011, Kang et al., 2011b, Kang et al., 2014, Lin et al., 2014, Kang et al., 2016, Wu et al., 2018, Chen et al., 2023, Kuhn and Schmaljohn 2023).

Genus demarcation criteria

Demarcation of genera is based upon DivErsity pArtitioning by hieRarchical Clustering (DEmARC) analysis) using concatenated deduced S, M, and L segment expression product sequences (Laenen et al., 2019). DEmARC analysis gave a frequency distribution of Pairwise Evolutionary Distance (PED) values of which the threshold of 0.95 gave an optimal clustering cost of zero and is used as the hantavirid genus demarcation criterium.