Tevenvirinae

see text Tevenvirinae is a subfamily of viruses in the family Straboviridae of class Caudoviricetes.

[1] The subfamily was previously placed in the morphology-based family Myoviridae, which was found to be paraphyletic in genome studies and abolished in the 2021 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classification.

[2] The following genera are recognized:[2] The species Acinetobacter virus 133 is unassigned to a genus.

[2] ' Viruses in Tevenvirinae are non-enveloped, with head-tail geometries.

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

Schematic drawings of a phage virion (species Escherichia virus T4 , cross sections and side view)