Taxon Details

Taxon name: Caminiviricetes

from the Latin camini, meaning chimneys, referring to the chimney-like deep sea hydrothermal vents in which Archaeoglobales and their viruses thrive; the suffix -vircetes for class taxa

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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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