Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

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This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy ofViruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTVExecutive Committee at its annual meeting in July 2021. All proposals were ratified by an absolute majority of the ICTVmembers. Of note, the Study Groups have started to implement the new rule for uniform virus species naming that becameeffective in 2021 and mandates the binomial ‘Genus_name species_epithet’ format with or without Latinization. As a resultof this ratification, the names of 6,481 virus species (more than 60 percent of all species names currently recognized byICTV) now follow this format. AUTORES: Peter J. Walker · Stuart G. Siddell · Elliot J. Lefkowitz · Arcady R. Mushegian· Evelien M. Adriaenssens ·Poliane Alfenas‑Zerbini · Donald M. Dempsey · Bas E. Dutilh · María Laura García ·R. Curtis Hendrickson · Sandra Junglen · Mart Krupovic· Jens H. Kuhn · Amy J. Lambert, ·Małgorzata Łobocka · Hanna M. Oksanen· Richard J. Orton · David L. Robertson ·Luisa Rubino · Sead Sabanadzovic · Peter Simmonds · Donald B. Smith · Nobuhiro Suzuki ·Koenraad Van Doorslaer · Anne‑Mieke Vandamme · Arvind Varsani · Francisco Murilo Zerbini