History of the taxon:
Etymology of the name:
Taxon: Picobirnaviridae Proposal: 2005.216-22V.04.Picobirna.pdf ICTV Report: Picobirnaviridae Reference:
from the Greek pico, meaning “small”, the Latin prefix bi, meaning “two” and RNA for ribonucleic acid, referring to the bisegmented dsRNA viral genome of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa