Database Details : ICTV/MSL: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses / Master Species List
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 100% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | ICTV/MSL: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses / Master Species List |
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| Short name: | ICTV_MSL |
| Version: | Oct 2015 |
| Release date: | 2015-10-23 |
| Authors/editors: | Lefkowitz E.J. (ed). |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Viruses |
| English name of the group: | Viruses and subviral agents |
| Number of living species | 3,186 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 0 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 0 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 3,186 |
| 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) |
| Website: |
http://ictvonline.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Lefkowitz E.J. (ed). (2018). ICTV/MSL: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses / Master Species List (version Oct 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2018 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2018. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |