Pedro L. Ramos-González, Juliana Freitas-Astúa, Jun-Min Li, Antonio Tiberini, Avijit Roy, and Caixia Yang
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary to be published as Ramos-González et al. (2026): ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Kitaviridae 2026, Journal of General Virology, (in press)
Viruses assigned to the genus Betaplatrhavirus form a distinct monophyletic group based on well-supported Maximum Likelihood or Maximum Clade Credibility trees inferred from complete L sequences. Members of the genus have been detected in flatworms (phylum Platyhelminthes) or vertebrate tissue samples. They are distinct phylogenetically from rhabdoviruses assigned to the genera Alphaplatrhavirus and Gammaplatrhavirus.
Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
Exemplar isolate of the species
