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

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

doi:10.1007/s00705-024-06143-y

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

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

Authors

Peter Simmonds

Evelien M. Adriaenssens

Elliot J. Lefkowitz

Hanna M. Oksanen

Stuart G. Siddell

Francisco Murilo Zerbini

Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini

Frank O. Aylward

Donald M. Dempsey

Bas E. Dutilh

Juliana Freitas-Astúa

María Laura García

R. Curtis Hendrickson

Holly R. Hughes

Sandra Junglen

Mart Krupovic

Jens H. Kuhn

Amy J. Lambert

Małgorzata Łobocka

Arcady R. Mushegian

Judit Penzes

Alejandro Reyes Muñoz

David L. Robertson

Simon Roux

Luisa Rubino

Sead Sabanadzovic

Donald B. Smith

Nobuhiro Suzuki

Dr Dann Turner Dann2.Turner@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Genomics

Koenraad Van Doorslaer

Anne-Mieke Vandamme

Arvind Varsani

Abstract

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.

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Sep 25, 2024
Online Publication Date	Nov 3, 2024
Publication Date	Nov 3, 2024
Deposit Date	Nov 5, 2024
Publicly Available Date	Nov 5, 2024
Journal	Archives of Virology
Print ISSN	0304-8608
Electronic ISSN	1432-8798
Publisher	Springer (part of Springer Nature)
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	169
Issue	11
Article Number	236
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-024-06143-y
Public URL	https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13398638
Additional Information	First Online: 3 November 2024; : ; : The authors declare no conflicts of interest.; : None of the work reported involved research on human participants or animals. All authors have contributed to this work and agreed to its publication.