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It has not been assigned to a Kingdom in the standard taxonomic classification system. Currently the taxonomy of viruses is less defined that of other and living organisms. Since viruses are really not living organisms, they do not have a Kingdom assigned.

Ordinarily (except for viruses) the hierarchy is:

Life

Domain

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

For viruses the hierarchy and classification usually begins at the Family level and continues down to the Serotype or subtype and strain, however, there are many different methods of classification with some more specific and some much less specific.

A-H1N1/09 Pandemic Influenza "Swine Flu of 2009" (an RNA virus genome)

Kingdom: Unassigned

Phylum: Unassigned

Class: Unassigned

Virus Groups (I - Vl): in some classification systems Influenza viruses fall in Group V, in other systems they are unassigned

Order: -virales or unassigned

Family: Viridae/Orthomyxoviridae

Genus: Influenzavirus A

Species: Influenza A virus

Serotype/Subtype: H1N1

Strain: A-H1N1/09-like virus

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