Taxon Details

History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Amalgaviridae; Proposal: 2013.005a-gP.A.v2.Amalgaviridae; : ; ICTV Report: ; Reference:

from the Medieval Latin amalgama, meaning "mercury alloy", referring to the fact that viruses of the family blend (or alloy) the properties of the viruses in the Partitiviridae (re: phylogeny) and the obsolete taxon Totiviridae (re: genome organization); the suffix -viridae for family taxa

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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