Chordopoxvirinae [SEP] parent taxon
Chordopoxvirinae
The Chordopoxvirinae are a subfamily of viruses in the family "Poxviridae". Humans, vertebrates, and arthropods serve as natural hosts. Currently, 38 species are placed in this subfamily, divided among 10 genera. Diseases associated with this subfamily include smallpox.
Four genera in this subfamily contain species that infect humans: "Molluscipoxvirus, Orthopoxvirus, Parapoxvirus", and "Yatapoxvirus".
Virology.
The virions are generally enveloped though the intracellular mature virion form of the virus, which contains a different envelope,
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of