Taxon Etymology

Etymology: from Anamã (Anama), referring to a tradition of “family” in the Tupi-guarani language, Brazil's most widely spoken indigenous language; the suffix -viridae for family taxa; connection unclear

Etymology: to honour Thomas Foxen Anderson, an American biophysical chemist and geneticist ; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the address where the genome of phage PA5oct was characterized (Kasteelpark Arenberg 21, Leuven, Belgium) in the Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Assale, a salt lake in the Danakil depression (Ethiopia) the location of sampling and from the Latin caudo, meaning tail, referring to the morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin assiduus, meaning "constant" or "regular", referring to the regular isolation of members of the family from enrichments and seawater; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour David Berryhill, an American microbiologist and one of the first people to isolate an Arthrobacter phage; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: after the fictional island Blefuscu from Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa; connection unclear

Etymology: to honor Eduard Buchner, a German chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Lester E. Casida Jr., an American industrial microbiologist; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Sherwood R Casjens, an American virologist, for his seminal contributions to the study of phage biology and evolution; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Martha Cowles Chase, an American geneticist who helped confirm that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from chimallin (“chīmalli”, an Aztec shield), which is the major phage nuclear shell protein, referring to the unique phage replication mechanism of members of the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the French city of Clermont-Ferrand where Methanomassiliicoccales archaea, host for viruses in the family, were co-discovered; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Donald R. Colingsworth, an American industrial microbiologist and the first person to isolate a Streptomyces phage; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Ian F. Connerton, a British microbiologist/food scientist who studied Campylobacter phage; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Dallol in the Danakil depression (Ethiopia), the location of sampling and from the Latin caudo, meaning tail, referring to the morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Danakil depression (Ethiopia) of geothermally influenced salt lakes, the location of sampling and from the Latin caudo, meaning tail, referring to the morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Milislav Demerec, a Croatian-American geneticist who pioneered work on bacteriophage, and collaborated in the first isolation of E.coli phage T5; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Henry Drexler, an American microbiologist, for his pioneering research on Escherichia phage T1; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the island Dune, close to Helgoland, where members of the famiy were discovered in aquatic samples; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Melanie Ehrlich, an American molecular biologist and Kenneth Craig Ehrlich, an American organic chemist/biochemist, who both pioneered work on Bacillus phage; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin felix, meaning luck, referring the chance discovery of the Roth phages C and D; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin fervens, meaning "hot", referring to the high temperature of the hydrothermal vent from which the provirus-carrying host was isolated; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the god Forseti, associated in Nordic mythology to the island Helgoland, where members of the famiy were discovered in aquatic samples; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Frederick Noel Fastier, a pharmacologist from New Zealand, one of the first scientists to isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Fuxi, a legendary figure in Chinese mythology known for his diverse talents and abilities; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the French microbiologist Francine Grimont for her extensive study of phages, particularly the C3 morphotype viruses; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Antonina Guelin who, at the Institut Pasteur, isolated some of the first Clostridium phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Gulliver, the protagonist of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, referring to the large size of the virus genome in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the island Helgoland, where members of the famiy were discovered in aquatic samples; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of bacteriophages by the French microbiologist Félix d’Hérelle; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honor Ludwik Hirszfeld, a Polish physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, the founder of the Polish School of Immunology and the scientific discipline of seroanthropology; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Jonathan Alan Hodgkin, a British biochemist whose group characterised the first bacteriophage to be reported for the coryneform genus Microbacterium; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin infernus, meaning "bottom" or "deep", referring to the location of the basaltic crust at the bottom of the ocean; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: referring to the remotely-operated vehicle Jason responsible for deploying and collecting sampling equipment for research in the deep biosphere; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Jean Marie Schmidt, an American microbiologist and cancer researcher who was one of the first scientists to study Caulobacter; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Janina Kleczkowska of the Rothampstead Experimental Station, UK, for pioneering the study of Rhizobium phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Japanese city of Konodai, the location of one of the research institutes where members of the family were discovered; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Albert Paul Krueger, an American microbiologist; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Kunpeng, a mythical creature in Chinese mythology known for its transformative abilities; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: after the fictional island Lilliput from Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa; connection unclear

Etymology: to honour Alf Erik Anton Lindberg, a Swedish physician scientist; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin ludis, meaning sport, referring to the vibrant sports scene in Buffalo, NY. ; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honor the Italian microbiologist Salvador Edward Luria, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his role in discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Lutetia, an historical name for the French city of Paris; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa. Connection unclear

Etymology: to honor of Bertha Lutz, a Brazilian zoologist, politician and diplomat; the suffix -viridae for family taxa.

Etymology: from Margherita di Savoia in Italy, where Haloarcula hispanica tailed virus 1, a member of the family, was first isolated; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Spanish city of Madrid, where Streptococcus phage Cp1 and Streptococcus phage Cp7, members of the family, were first isolated; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin marinus, meaning “sea”,and the vowel i, referring to the habitat of the member virus; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Mazovia, a historic region of Poland; the suffix -viridae for family taxa; connection obscure

Etymology: to honour the Russian scientist Vadim V. Mesyanzhinov, for his research on the mechanisms of protein folding and assembly, and structural genomics; the suffix -viridae for family taxa