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In fact, for three of these four animal coronaviruses, the strongest correlation between the number of viral and animal reads is for the animal species known to be infected with the virus...

The animal species known to be infected by HeB-G1 and SD-F3 canine coronaviruses is the raccoon dog. This is an interesting paper for some context on these and related viruses in the animal trade -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927323006278 -- SD-F3 is associated with fecal samples from 14 sick raccoon dogs and HeB-G1 from one dead raccoon dog.

From Table S1 in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867422001945