Pimascovirales Explained

Pimascovirales is an order of viruses.^[1] The term is a portmanteau of a portmanteau of pitho-, irido-, marseille-, and ascoviruses.^[2]

Families

The following families are recognized:

• Ascoviridae
• Iridoviridae
• Marseilleviridae

Notes and References

1. Web site: Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release. talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. 25 April 2020.
2. Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for DNA viruses encoding vertical jelly roll-type major capsid proteins . Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH. ICTV Proposal (Taxoprop) . October 2019 . 2019.003G . 10.13140/RG.2.2.14886.47684 .