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Version 4 of taxonomy release MSL39 is now available.

A new error correction version of the 2023 ICTV taxonomy is now available online at https://ictv.global/taxonomy. This new version of Master Species List, #39v4 is available for download as an Excel Spreadsheet.

The MSL39 release contains taxonomic changes approved by the ICTV Executive Committee in July, 2023 and ratified by the ICTV Membership in April 2024. A paper describing this release is available from Archives of Virology: "Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2024)". Arch Virol. 2024 Nov 3;169(11):236. PMID: 39488803; PMCID: PMC11532311. 

Version 4 (November 15, 2024) contains the following corrections:

  1. Typo correction to genus name Sanchirviurs to Sanchirvirus, and member species Sanchirvirus lawatis
  2. Typo correction to the genus name Thyiavirua to Thyiavirus, and member species Thyiavirus flanatis
  3. Name correction to the genus name Zohali to Zohalivirus, and member species Zohalivirus maramis

Version 3 (June 21, 2024) contained the following corrections:

  1. Spelling correction to species name Enterovirus deconjuncti (Picornavirales, Picornaviridae).
  2. Typo correction to 19 species epithets of subfamily Spumaretrovirinae (remove "fo" suffix), specifically one species each in genera Bovispumavirus, Equispumavirus, Felispumavirus, Prosimiispumavirus, and 15 species in genus Simiispumavirus.
  3. Typo correction to the species epithet for Megalocytivirus spagrus1 (remove "s" prefix), in the family Iridoviridae (subfamily Alphairidovirinae; genus Megalocytivirus).
  4. The renamed family, Orthototiviridae, was moved to its correct possition within the suborder Alphatotivirineae (order Ghabrivirales).
  5. The new family, Konkoviridae, including one new genus, Olpivirus, was moved into its correct position within the order Hareavirales (class Bunyaviricetes).
  6. Typo correction to species name iBegomovirus oxalisflavi (remove "i" prefix) in genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae.

Version 2 (May 7, 2024) contained the following correction:

  1. The genus Mimivirus was moved into its correct position within the subfamily, Megamimivirinae.

Official taxonomy proposals documenting these and all other taxonomic changes approved by the ICTV since the publication of the 8th ICTV Report can be found at https://ictv.global/Official_ICTV_Proposals.htm. 

Posted June 25, 2024