History of the taxon:
Etymology of the name:
Taxon: Pseudoviridae Proposal: Ratification_1998.pdf 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