Taxon Details

family: Arenaviridae (release 2024, MSL 40)

Etymology: from the Spanish arena, meaning “sand", referring to the appearance of mammarenavirus particles observed by electron-microscopy; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: Ratification_1975.pdf PubMed ID: 4986852
Report Chapter: Arenaviridae

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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