^Buchmeier, Michael J.; et al. (2 Jul 2014). "Rename one (1) genus and twenty-five (25) species in the family Arenaviridae"(PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (بالإنجليزية). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2019-03-07. in the family Arenaviridae change the name of genus Arenavirus to Mammarenavirus and convert the names of its constituent species to a binomial format, by appending the name Mammarenavirus to each existing name
^"ICTV 9th Report Arenaviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). مؤرشف من الأصل في 2021-04-29. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2019-03-07. Derivation of name Arena: from Latin arenosus, "sandy" and arena, "sand", in recognition of the sand-like particles observed in thin section. The name originally proposed was arenovirus, but was subsequently changed to avoid possible confusion with Adenovirus.