Etymology

from solar saltern, an artifical shallow pond for the production of salt, and the location Eilat, Israel, where Haloarcula tailed virus 2, a member of the family, was isolated; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann, a German microbiologist, past life member of ICTV, a pioneer of electron microscopy and the taxonomy of prokcaryotic viruses; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from  Olleya sp, a host of Olleya phage Harreka 1, which is found mainly in aggregates; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Alice Catherine Evans, an American microbiologist who investigated the bacteriology of milk and cheese; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the address where the genome of phage PA5oct was characterized (Kasteelpark Arenberg 21, Leuven, Belgium) in the Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Latin assiduus, meaning "constant" or "regular", referring to the regular isolation of members of the family from enrichments and seawater; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós), meaning "self" and γρᾰ́φειν (gráphein) meaning "to carve" referring to "self-writing” or “self-transcribing” bacterial viruses in the family that encode a large single subunit RNA polymerase; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Sherwood R Casjens, an American virologist, for his seminal contributions to the study of phage biology and evolution; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Martha Cowles Chase, an American geneticist who helped confirm that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from chimallin (“chīmalli”, an Aztec shield), which is the major phage nuclear shell protein, referring to the unique phage replication mechanism of members of the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

from the French city of Clermont-Ferrand where Methanomassiliicoccales archaea, host for viruses in the family, were co-discovered; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

to honour Milislav Demerec, a Croatian-American geneticist who pioneered work on bacteriophage, and collaborated in the first isolation of E.coli phage T5; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Henry Drexler, an American microbiologist, for his pioneering research on Escherichia phage T1; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the island Dune, close to Helgoland, where members of the famiy were discovered in aquatic samples; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Latin fervens, meaning "hot", referring to the high temperature of the hydrothermal vent from which the provirus-carrying host was isolated; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the god Forseti, associated in Nordic mythology to the island Helgoland, where members of the famiy were discovered in aquatic samples; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Frederick Noel Fastier, a pharmacologist from New Zealand, one of the first scientists to isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa 

to honour the French microbiologist Francine Grimont for her extensive study of phages, particularly the C3 morphotype viruses; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Antonina Guelin  who, at the Institut Pasteur, isolated some of the first Clostridium phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the island Helgoland, where members of the famiy were discovered in aquatic samples; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of bacteriophages by the French microbiologist Félix d’Hérelle; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Janina Kleczkowska of the Rothampstead Experimental Station, UK, for pioneering the study of Rhizobium phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa 

from the Japanese city of Konodai,  the location of one of the research institutes where members of the family were discovered; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

from the Ancient Greek κυάνεος (kuáneos), meaning “dark blue”, referring to the cyanobacterial hosts to viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from Lutetia, an historical name for the French city of Paris; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa. Connection unclear

from Margherita di Savoia in Italy, where Haloarcula hispanica tailed virus 1, a member of the family, was first isolated; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Spanish city of Madrid, where Streptococcus phage Cp1 and Streptococcus phage Cp7, members of the family, were first isolated; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

to honour the Russian scientist Vadim V. Mesyanzhinov, for his research on the mechanisms of protein folding and assembly, and structural genomics; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the names of two species in the genus Mollyvirus: Mollyvirus Molly and Mollyvirus Colly; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the biblical character Naomi and Hebrew naomi, meaning “good” to represent the good that bacteriophage can do; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour the Danish chemist and dairy bacteriologist Sigurd Orla-Jensen who was largely responsible for the isolation and taxonomy of the bacteria in the genus Microbacterium; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús), meaning "thick" and referring to the morphology of members of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from Escherichia phage P2 (phonetically "Pe" and "duo" representing "2"), a member of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Latin pervagus, meaning "widely roaming", referring to members of the species Callevirus phi38una in the genus Callevirus, which are found in various ocean regions; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour of American microbiologist Christine Pootjes, one of the first scientist to study Agrobacterium phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Latin pungo, meaning "prick" or "puncture", referring to the ability of the viruses in the family to lyse the Methanoculleus host; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Phyllis Margaret  Rountree, an Australian bacteriologist and expert on Staphylococcus; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour Robert S. Safferman, an American microbiologist who together with Mary-Ellen Morris first isolated and characterized Leptolyngbya phage LPP-1, a member of the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

to honour Margarita Salas Falgueras, a Spanish scientist, medical researcher, and author in the fields of biochemistry and molecular genetics; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Finnish saparo, meaning "pig tail", referring to the virion morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour the Italian microbiologist Gian Carlo Schito, who isolated Escherichia phage N4; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Latin spero, meaning "hope", green (the colour of hope) referring to the green F420 autofluorescence of methanogenic archaea that host Methanobacterium virus C158, a member of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

to honour the British microbiologist Stanley Thomas Williams, a pioneer in the development of techniques for scanning electron microscopy of microbes; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the name of the Greek philosopher Strabo; the suffix -viridae for family taxa; connection unclear

from the Finnish suola meaning "salt", referring to the haloarchaeal host of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the Japanese city of Toyoma,  the location of one of the research institutes where members of the family were discovered; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

from the Japanese area of Umezono,  the location of one of the research institutes where members of the family were discovered; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

from Verdandi, one of the three Norns, the most powerful beings in Norse mythology that govern the lives of gods and mortals; the suffix -viridae for family taxa; connection unclear

from the Latin verto, meaning "invert", referring to the invertible tail fiber locus characterized in genomes of viruses of this family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

from the designations V (phoneticlaly "Vi"),  L and M, referring to the clusters on the Actinobacteriophage Database that include viruses of the family and addition of the vowel a; the suffix -viridae for family taxa