family: Amalgaviridae (current release)

Etymology: from the Medieval Latin amalgama, meaning "mercury alloy", referring to the fact that viruses of the family blend (or alloy) the properties of the viruses in the Partitiviridae (re: phylogeny) and the obsolete taxon Totiviridae (re: genome organization); the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: 2013.005a-gP.A.v2.Amalgaviridae.pdfReport Chapter: Amalgaviridae