Taxon Details

Taxon name: Amalgaviridae

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&colon; phylogeny) and the obsolete taxon Totiviridae (re&colon; genome organization); the suffix -viridae for family taxa

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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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