Taxon Details

family: Mimiviridae (release 2019, MSL 35)

Etymology: from microbe mimicking because the large particle size of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: 2005.004F.04.Mimiviridae.pdf

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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