Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2024)

This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2024. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 203 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Com...

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Published in:Archives of virology Vol. 169; no. 11; p. 236
Main Authors: Simmonds, Peter, Adriaenssens, Evelien M., Lefkowitz, Elliot J., Oksanen, Hanna M., Siddell, Stuart G., Zerbini, Francisco Murilo, Alfenas-Zerbini, Poliane, Aylward, Frank O., Dempsey, Donald M., Dutilh, Bas E., Freitas-Astúa, Juliana, García, María Laura, Hendrickson, R. Curtis, Hughes, Holly R., Junglen, Sandra, Krupovic, Mart, Kuhn, Jens H., Lambert, Amy J., Łobocka, Małgorzata, Mushegian, Arcady R., Penzes, Judit, Muñoz, Alejandro Reyes, Robertson, David L., Roux, Simon, Rubino, Luisa, Sabanadzovic, Sead, Smith, Donald B., Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Turner, Dann, Van Doorslaer, Koenraad, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke, Varsani, Arvind
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.11.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Verlag
Subjects:
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
class
Classification - methods
Committees
Genomes
genus
Germany
Infectious Diseases
Life Sciences
Medical Microbiology
Meetings
Microbiology and Parasitology
New families
New genera
New orders
New species
Nomenclature
Phylogeny
Proposals
RNA polymerase
species
Taxonomy
Terminology as Topic
Virology
Virology - methods
Virology Division
Virology Division News
Viruses
Viruses - classification
Viruses - genetics
Viruses - isolation & purification
Germany
ISSN:0304-8608, 1432-8798, 1432-8798
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Summary:This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2024. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 203 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Committee (EC) in July 2023 at the 55th EC meeting in Jena, Germany, or in the second EC vote in November 2023. All proposals were ratified by online vote. Taxonomic additions include one new phylum ( Ambiviricota ), one new class, nine new orders, three new suborders, 51 new families, 18 new subfamilies, 820 new genera, and 3547 new species (excluding taxa that have been abolished). Proposals to complete the process of species name replacement to the binomial (genus + species epithet) format were ratified. Currently, a total of 14,690 virus species have been established.
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Handling Editor: Tim Skern.
ISSN:0304-8608
1432-8798
1432-8798
DOI:10.1007/s00705-024-06143-y