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Hypersaline systems, due to their geographical isolation and extreme conditions, are typically expected to exhibit low connectivity. However, reports of similar viral assemblages in geographically distant hypersaline environments suggest a higher level of connectivity than previously assumed, although the mechanisms underlying viral dispersal remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that seawater facilitates the dispersal of halophilic viruses (haloviruses). To test the hypothesis, we analyzed twenty hypersaline water samples from globally distributed sites across four continents and constructed \u201cThe Global Halophilic Virome Dataset\u201d (GHV), containing 10\u2009705 viral Operational Taxonomic Units (vOTUs). Additionally, we proposed a sample-adapted threshold to distinguish between \u201cabundant\u201d and \u201crare\u201d members of the virosphere. 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