I continue to be amazed at the imagination of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s mind, and thank the SF gods for his prolific output. I may need to retire simply to keep up with his forthcoming books (and catch up on the few I have missed)!

Yes!

We will be publishing a paper to explain the difference between virus names and taxon names. But this has been a decades-long battle.

I know that Eddie and likely those following this thread are intelligent and reasonable biologists, but I don't quite understand this comment and the seemingly endless difficulty and misrepresentation in any discussion of virus species names here and on other sites.

Thanks. Yes, we will look at doing that. The complication will be to
return the results to a separate page.

Please provide specific examples of what can be improved.

The ICTV web site has an app, “Find the Species” that will provide the formal taxon name, given a common name: ictv.global/taxonomy/fin...