Full name:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses / Master Species List

Short name:

ICTV_MSL

Version:

Apr 2008

Release date:

September 30th, 2008

Authors/editors:

MJ Adams, LA Ball, C Büchen-Osmond, EB Carstens, P Christian, AJ Davison, U Desselberger, CM Fauquet, AE Gorbalenya, AL Haenni, AMQ King, NJ Knowles, PJ Krell, R Lavigne, EJ Lefkowitz, DJ McGeoch, J Mackenzie, IJ Molineux, K Nagasaki, D Prangishvili, H Sanfacon, HS Savithri, S Siddell, C Suttle, JL Van Etten, HJ Vetten

Taxonomic coverage:

Viruses

Number of species names:

2,083 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

0 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

2,083

Abstract:

The International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) has charged the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) with the task of developing, refining, and maintaining a universal virus taxonomy. The goal of this undertaking is to categorize the multitude of known virus into a single classification scheme that reflects their evolutionary relationships, i.e. their individual phylogenies.

Organization:

International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

Web site:

http://ictvonline.org