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It looks like the taxobox lists viruses of whole familyHantaviridae although it is titled as (restricted to) Orthohantavirus.
For instance, Nova virus - now called Nova mobatvirus (ICTV as of 3rd Nov. 2018) is a Mobatvirus, not an Orthohantavirus. Similar, Imjin-Virus, now called Imjin thottimvirus and Thottapalayam virus now called Thottopalayam thottimvirus belong to Thottimvirus.
Furthermore, several of the viruses mentioned in the taxobox cannot be identified with ICTV master species list 2018a v1.
Is there any expert who might correct this?
Kind regards -- Ernsts ( talk) 15:18, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
It'd be nice to move the bit about the Hantan River into an "Etymology" section, and to explain there the significance of the "ortho-" prefix apparently added later. -- Dan Harkless ( talk) 07:43, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
I understood that viral taxa (unlike other higher taxa) were all italicised? Has this changed recently? (And, as an aside, spaced em dashes are not style for parenthetical phrases – one can use either spaced en dashes or unspaced em dashes.) Espresso Addict ( talk) 23:22, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
When using taxonomic ("scientific") names, capitalize and italicize the genus: Berberis, Erithacus. (Supergenus and subgenus, when applicable, are treated the same way.) Italicize but do not capitalize taxonomic ranks at the level of species and below: Berberis darwinii, Erithacus rubecula superbus, Acacia coriacea subsp. sericophylla; no exception is made for proper names forming part of scientific names. Higher taxa (order, family, etc.) are capitalized in Latin (Carnivora, Felidae) but not in their English equivalents (carnivorans, felids); they are not italicized in either form, except for viruses, where all names accepted by the ICTV are italicized (Retroviridae).
For viruses, the recent formal convention is to italicize and capitalize the order and everything below it, including capitalizing the first letter of the species name (but not of subsequent words in the species name). This italicization convention should only be used for virus infoboxes and otherwise within virology articles; it is not common outside this context even in academic journals, and should not be used in other categories of articles, as its double inconsistency will be confusing to readers and to non-specialist editors. The Manual of Style advises us, across all style issues, to be consistent within an article and to write for broad not narrow understanding. When editing an article that mixes viral and other topics, use the italicization and capitalization conventions of the non-viral topic, as this increases site-wide consistency and is less jarring for readers (e.g., in an article on cattle health, use the ICZN not ICTV style). Examples: In a virology article, use within Herpesviridae, genus Cytomegalovirus belongs to the Betaherpesvirinae subfamily, but otherwise use within Herpesviridae, genus Cytomegalovirus belongs to the Betaherpesvirinae subfamily. Virus species names are often abbreviated, e.g. HIV, HHV-5, etc.; these short forms are not italicized and do not use periods (full points) between the acronym letters. Unlike in other fields, non-abbreviated genus and species epithets in virology can even be multi-word, and overlapping (redundantly worded): Influenza A virus is a species in the genus Influenzavirus A.
Source: https://www.firstpost.com/health/man-dies-from-hantavirus-in-china-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-virus-and-how-it-spreads-8184521.html 2409:4060:418:61AF:C026:5006:A2C1:6765 ( talk) 13:31, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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It looks like the taxobox lists viruses of whole familyHantaviridae although it is titled as (restricted to) Orthohantavirus.
For instance, Nova virus - now called Nova mobatvirus (ICTV as of 3rd Nov. 2018) is a Mobatvirus, not an Orthohantavirus. Similar, Imjin-Virus, now called Imjin thottimvirus and Thottapalayam virus now called Thottopalayam thottimvirus belong to Thottimvirus.
Furthermore, several of the viruses mentioned in the taxobox cannot be identified with ICTV master species list 2018a v1.
Is there any expert who might correct this?
Kind regards -- Ernsts ( talk) 15:18, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
It'd be nice to move the bit about the Hantan River into an "Etymology" section, and to explain there the significance of the "ortho-" prefix apparently added later. -- Dan Harkless ( talk) 07:43, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
I understood that viral taxa (unlike other higher taxa) were all italicised? Has this changed recently? (And, as an aside, spaced em dashes are not style for parenthetical phrases – one can use either spaced en dashes or unspaced em dashes.) Espresso Addict ( talk) 23:22, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
When using taxonomic ("scientific") names, capitalize and italicize the genus: Berberis, Erithacus. (Supergenus and subgenus, when applicable, are treated the same way.) Italicize but do not capitalize taxonomic ranks at the level of species and below: Berberis darwinii, Erithacus rubecula superbus, Acacia coriacea subsp. sericophylla; no exception is made for proper names forming part of scientific names. Higher taxa (order, family, etc.) are capitalized in Latin (Carnivora, Felidae) but not in their English equivalents (carnivorans, felids); they are not italicized in either form, except for viruses, where all names accepted by the ICTV are italicized (Retroviridae).
For viruses, the recent formal convention is to italicize and capitalize the order and everything below it, including capitalizing the first letter of the species name (but not of subsequent words in the species name). This italicization convention should only be used for virus infoboxes and otherwise within virology articles; it is not common outside this context even in academic journals, and should not be used in other categories of articles, as its double inconsistency will be confusing to readers and to non-specialist editors. The Manual of Style advises us, across all style issues, to be consistent within an article and to write for broad not narrow understanding. When editing an article that mixes viral and other topics, use the italicization and capitalization conventions of the non-viral topic, as this increases site-wide consistency and is less jarring for readers (e.g., in an article on cattle health, use the ICZN not ICTV style). Examples: In a virology article, use within Herpesviridae, genus Cytomegalovirus belongs to the Betaherpesvirinae subfamily, but otherwise use within Herpesviridae, genus Cytomegalovirus belongs to the Betaherpesvirinae subfamily. Virus species names are often abbreviated, e.g. HIV, HHV-5, etc.; these short forms are not italicized and do not use periods (full points) between the acronym letters. Unlike in other fields, non-abbreviated genus and species epithets in virology can even be multi-word, and overlapping (redundantly worded): Influenza A virus is a species in the genus Influenzavirus A.
Source: https://www.firstpost.com/health/man-dies-from-hantavirus-in-china-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-virus-and-how-it-spreads-8184521.html 2409:4060:418:61AF:C026:5006:A2C1:6765 ( talk) 13:31, 24 March 2020 (UTC)