Taxon Details

History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Pseudoviridae; Proposal: Ratification 1998; : ; ICTV Report: Pseudoviridae; Reference: PMID: 12411593

from the Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudes), meaning "false", referring to an evolutionary relationship of family members to viruses with extracellular virions, although they themselves have no extracellular phase; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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