Family: Nyamiviridae
Genus: Tapwovirus
Distinguishing features
Viruses are placed in the genus based upon phylogeny and host range.
Virion
Morphology
Not reported.
Nucleic acid
Bisegmented, negative-sense RNA.
Proteins
The Wēnzhōu tapeworm virus 1 (WzTWV-1) genome encodes 5 proteins including a putative glycoprotein and four hypothetical proteins on RNA 2, and large protein on RNA 1, identified on the basis of sequence similarity and structural properties shared with mononegavirus homologues (Shi et al., 2016).
Genome organization and replication
WzTWV-1 has two negative-sense RNA genome segments with reported sequence data of 6 kb (Shi et al., 2016).
Biology
Tapwoviruses appear to infect tapeworms.
Species demarcation criteria
Not applicable.