Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2016 update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee. AdriaenssensEM KrupovicM KnezevicP AckermannH-W BarylskiJ BristerJR ClokieMRC DuffyS DutilhBE EdwardsRA EnaultF JangHB KlumppJ KropinskiAM LavigneR PoranenMM PrangishviliD RumnieksJ SullivanMB WittmannJ OksanenHM GillisA KuhnJH 2019 The prokaryotic virus community is represented at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Since our last report [8], the committee composition has changed, and a large number of taxonomic proposals (TaxoProps) were submitted to the ICTV Executive Committee (EC) for approval.