Taxon Details

order: Imitervirales (release 2024, MSL 40)

Etymology: from the French imiter, meaning "to mimic", referring to mimiviruses (microbe-imitating); the suffix -virales for order taxa
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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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