Taxon Details

Taxon name: Clavaviridae

from Latin clava, meaning "club" or "stick", referring to the rigid, bacilliform virion morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

ICTV Report: Clavaviridae Created in Proposal: 2010.002a-gB.A.v2.Clavaviridae.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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