See list to the left Peduoviridae is a family of viruses in the class Caudoviricetes.

[1][2] It was previously treated as a subfamily of the morphology based family Myoviridae, which has been found to be paraphyletic and is no longer recognised.

There are 126 species in this subfamily, assigned to 58 genera.

The following genera are recognized:[2] Viruses in Peduovirinae are non-enveloped, with icosahedral and Head-tail geometries, and T=7 symmetry.

The virus exits the host cell by lysis, and holin/endolysin/spanin proteins.