TABLE 1.

Selected taxonomic updates and proposed updates of viruses affecting vertebrate animals^a

Update(s)	Yr	Reference(s) or source
Name change from Odocoileus hemionus deer adenovirus 1 (OdAdV-1) to cervid adenovirus 1, with the species name Cervid atadenovirus A	2017	5
Novel nidovirus “Bellinger River virus” (BRV); BRV is the first nidovirus in the proposed Barnivirus genus that has been isolated from a nonsquamatid reptile and is phylogenetically placed between the recognized python nidoviruses and the shingleback lizard nidovirus	2018	6
Create 1 new genus, Boosepivirus, with 3 species, Boosepivirus A, Boosepivirus B, and Boosepivirus C	2015	7
Create 8 new genera and 12 new species within the family Poxviridae, rename 1 species, and move 3 species	2019	8, 9
Create 3 new species in the genus Sripuvirus, family Rhabdoviridae, infecting reptiles and amphibians	2018	10
Rename the genus Banyangvirus to Bandavirus (a portmanteau of Bhanja virus and Dabie Mountain virus); change the species name Huaiyangshan banyangvirus to Dabie bandavirus, and change the genus name components of the remaining species in the genus from banyangvirus to bandavirus	2019	https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/p/taxonomy-history?taxnode_id=201906224 (accessed 20 July 2020)

^aBased on data from the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 2019 taxonomy release (https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/ [accessed 24 August 2020]).