History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Natareviridae Proposal: 2020.026M.R.Jingchuvirales.zip  ICTV Report: Natareviridae Reference:  

from the Latin natare, meaning “swim" or "float”, possibly because Wēnzhōu crab virus 3 was isolated from Charybdis japonica, the Asian paddle crab, a species of swimming crab; the suffix -viridae for family taxa