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The genus Enterovirus consists of
10 species:
Human enterovirus A,
Human enterovirus B,
Human enterovirus C,
Human enterovirus D,
Simian
enterovirus A, Bovine enterovirus,
Porcine
enterovirus A,
Porcine
enterovirus B,
Human rhinovirus
A and Human rhinovirus B.
The Enterovirus type species is
Human enterovirus C.
The three poliovirus serotypes now belong to the
species
Human enterovirus C and the species
Poliovirus no longer exists.
Taxonomic proposals, which have been approved by the
ICTV Executive committee and await ratification by the ICTV membership,
are:
i) to rename the species
Porcine
enterovirus A as
"Porcine saplelovirus" and move it to a new genus,
"Sapaelovirus".
ii) to create a new species,
"Human rhinovirus
C".
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