Taxon name: Pseudoviridae
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
ICTV Report: Pseudoviridae Created in Proposal: Ratification_1998.pdf Reference: PMID: 12411593