Ranavirus
Ranavirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Iridoviridae. There are five other genera of viruses within the family Iridoviridae, but Ranavirus is the only one that includes viruses that are infectious to amphibians and reptiles. Additionally, it is one of the three genera within this family which infect teleost fishes, along with Lymphocystivirus and Megalocytivirus. The family Iridoviridae is one of the five families of nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Ambystoma tigrinum virus
speciesRanavirus ambystoma-i
Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus
speciesRanavirus perca-i
Common midwife toad virus
speciesRanavirus alytes-i
frog virus 3
speciesRanavirus rana-i
largemouth bass virus
speciesRanavirus micropterus-i
Singapore grouper iridovirus
speciesRanavirus epinephelus-i
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 475969.