Caudovirales

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin cauda (“tail”) +‎ -virales

Proper noun

Caudovirales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Caudoviricetes – all the bacteriophages that have tails.

Hypernyms

• (order): double-stranded DNA viruses
  • Duplodnaviria - realm; Heunggongvirae - kingdom; Uroviricota - phylum; Caudoviricetes - class - ICTV 2019

Hyponyms

• (order): Ackermannviridae, Autographiviridae, Chaseviridae, Demerecviridae, Drexlerviridae, Herelleviridae, Myoviridae; Podoviridae; Siphoviridae - families
  • Lilyvirus - genus not assigned to family

References

• Caudovirales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caudovirales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caudovirales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Caudovirales at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Caudovirales at the Catalogue of Life 
• ICTV Search
• Caudovirales in taxon history at International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses