Taxon Etymology

Etymology: from the names of two species in the genus Mollyvirus: Mollyvirus Molly and Mollyvirus Colly; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Georgian მტკვარი, Mt’k’vari, for the river flowing through Tbilisi from which phage phiEco32 was isolated; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the biblical character Naomi and Hebrew naomi, meaning “good” to represent the good that bacteriophage can do; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin nix, meaning snow, referring to the abundance of snow during the winter months in Buffalo, NY. ; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the Danish chemist and dairy bacteriologist Sigurd Orla-Jensen who was largely responsible for the isolation and taxonomy of the bacteria in the genus Microbacterium; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús), meaning "thick" and referring to the morphology of members of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Escherichia phage P2 (phonetically "Pe" and "duo" representing "2"), a member of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin pervagus, meaning "widely roaming", referring to members of the species Callevirus phi38una in the genus Callevirus, which are found in various ocean regions; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the VIP Project Team 2 (P2), using the phonetic alphabet, referring to the isolation and characterization of Klebsiella phage vB_VIPKPNMC05; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour of American microbiologist Christine Pootjes, one of the first scientist to study Agrobacterium phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin pungo, meaning "prick" or "puncture", referring to the ability of the viruses in the family to lyse the Methanoculleus host; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Afar quasbo, meaning "salt", referring to environment in which these viruses were found; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Phyllis Margaret Rountree, an Australian bacteriologist and expert on Staphylococcus; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Robert S. Safferman, an American microbiologist who together with Mary-Ellen Morris first isolated and characterized Leptolyngbya phage LPP-1, a member of the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Spanish salado, meaning "salty", referring to the environment in which these viruses were found; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Margarita Salas Falgueras, a Spanish scientist, medical researcher, and author in the fields of biochemistry and molecular genetics; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Finnish saparo, meaning "pig tail", referring to the virion morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Sark, one of the Channel Islands, continuing the theme used to name Guernseyvirinae and Jerseyvirus ; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the Italian microbiologist Gian Carlo Schito, who isolated Escherichia phage N4; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the phonetic translation of C-DEBI (Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations), referring to an organization that helped drive research in the deep biosphere; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin spero, meaning "hope", green (the colour of hope) referring to the green F420 autofluorescence of methanogenic archaea that host Methanobacterium virus C158, a member of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Erko Stackebrandt, a German microbiologist; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the British microbiologist Stanley Thomas Williams, a pioneer in the development of techniques for scanning electron microscopy of microbes; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Finnish suola meaning "salt", referring to the haloarchaeal host of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin tenebrae, meaning "darkness", referring to the deep dark ocean where CORKs (Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kits) are located ; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

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

Etymology: to honour Thomas A Trautner, a German molecular biologist, who studied SPP1 for several decades; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

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

Etymology: to honour Marinus van den Ende, a South African medical scientist and virologist; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Verdandi, one of the three Norns, the most powerful beings in Norse mythology that govern the lives of gods and mortals; the suffix -viridae for family taxa; connection unclear

Etymology: from the Latin verto, meaning "invert", referring to the invertible tail fiber locus characterized in genomes of viruses of this family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the designations V (phoneticlaly "Vi"), L and M, referring to the clusters on the Actinobacteriophage Database that include viruses of the family and addition of the vowel a; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Winogradskyella, the genus of the host to Winogradshyella phage Peternella, a member of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the American microbiologist Charles Henry Zierdt, who isolated and studied some of the first Corynebacterium (Propionibacterium) acnes phages; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the American microbiologist Esther Zimmer Lederberg, the discoverer of lambda phage; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour the American microbiologist Claude Ephraim Zobell, the first person to isolate marine phage, and a pioneer of marine microbiology; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the sixth Latin letter “ef” and the Latin una, meaning “one”, referring to Enterobacteria phage f1, which encodes the hallmark morphogenic module of this realm; the suffix ‑viria for realm taxa

Etymology: to honour Timothy Loeb, who described “phage f1” in 1960; the suffix -virae for kingdom taxa

Etymology: to honour Peter H. Hofschneider, who described “phage M13” in 1963; the suffix -viricota for phylum taxa

Etymology: from the German Faser, meaning "fiber", a reference to the family name Inoviridae, which is derived from the Ancient Greek  ἰνός (inos), meaning "a fiber", referring to the virion morphology of viruses in the class; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from tubular, referring to the virion morphology of some viruses in this taxon; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Ancient Greek ἰνός (inos), meaning a "fiber", referring to the virion morhology of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin paulus, meaning “small”, referring to the shorter genomes and fewer encoded proteins in members of the family compared to viruses of other families such as Inoviridae within the order Tubulavirales; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin plectrum, meaning "small stick", referring to the virion morphology of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin floreo, meaning "to blossom", referring to the bloom of diversity in the virus realm in terms of genome structures and topologies, mechanisms of replication and virion structures; the suffix ‑viria for realm taxa

Etymology: from the Japanese Empress Shōtoku (称徳天皇), aka Kōken (孝謙天皇), who wrote a poem about a plant disease caused by a geminivirus—considered the first written record of a plant virus disease; the suffix -virae for kingdom taxa

Etymology: referring to the commensal lifestyle of anelloviruses; the suffix -viricota for phylum taxa

Etymology: from Cardea, the Roman goddess of health; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from the Latin sanitas meaning health, referring to anelloviruses being part of the healthy human virome; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Latin anello, meaning "ring", referring to the circular nature of the DNA genome of viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Yvonne Cossart, who co-discovered parvovirus B19; the suffix -viricota for phylum taxa

Etymology: from the French mou, meaning "flaccid", referring to the disease associated with Bombyx mori bidensovirus, a member of the class; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from polinton-like virus. Polintons are large DNA transposons which contain genes with homology to viral proteins; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Latin bi meaning "two" and DNA for deoxyribonucleic acid, referring to the segmented ssDNA genomes of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from papova, referring to the defunct Papovaviridae, which once included papillomavirus, mouse polyoma virus, and simian vacuolating virus ; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from SE [Stewart & Eddy] polyoma, the original designation for the first discovered polyomavirus (now murine polyomavirus); the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the English prefix poly- (Ancient Greek πολύς (polús) meaning “many”) and  the Greek suffix -oma, used to form nouns denoting “tumours”, referring to the association of some viruses in the family with cancers; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: to honour Harald zur Hausen, who discovered the connection between papillomaviruses and cervical cancer; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Latin papilla, meaning “nipple" or "pustule”, and the Greek suffix -oma, used to form nouns denoting “tumours”, referring to the association of some viruses in the family with cancers; the suffix -viridae for family taxa