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. 2019 Mar 2;11(3):210. doi: 10.3390/v11030210

Table 1.

International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classification of coronaviruses species, reservoir hosts, and presence reported in China.

Coronavirus Species Abbreviations Human Bats Other Animals Reported in China
Bat coronavirus HKU10 BtCoV-HKU10 Yes Yes [7,8,26,27] α-CoV
Bat coronavirus CDPHE15 BtCoV-CDPHE15 Yes No
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum alphacoronavirus HuB-2013 BtRfCoV-HuB13 Yes Yes [8]
* Human coronavirus 229E HCoV-229E Yes Yes [28,29]
Lucheng Rn rat coronavirus LRNV Yes (rat) Yes [30]
Ferret coronavirus FRCoV Yes (ferret) No [31]
* Mink coronavirus 1 MCoV Yes (mink) No [14]
Miniopterus bat coronavirus 1 BtMiCoV-1 Yes Yes [7,8,32,33,34,35,36,37]
Miniopterus bat coronavirus HKU8 BtMiCoV-HKU8 Yes Yes [7,8,33,34,35,37,38,39,40,41]
Myotis ricketti alphacoronavirus Sax-2011 BtMy-Sax11 Yes Yes [8,37]
Nyctalus velutinus alphacoronavirus SC-2013 BtNy-Sc13 Yes Yes [8]
* Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus PEDV Yes (pig) Yes [42]
Scotophilus bat coronavirus 512 BtScCoV-512 Yes Yes [37]
* Rhinolophus bat coronavirus HKU2 (SADS) BtRhCoV-HKU2 Yes Yes Yes [2,7,8,38,43,44,45]
* Human coronavirus NL63 HCoV-NL63 Yes Yes [28,29]
NL63-related bat coronavirus strain BtKYNL63-9b BtKYNL63 Yes No [24]
* Alphacoronavirus 1 (Transmissible gastroenteritis virus) TGEV Yes (pig) Yes [42]
China Rattus coronavirus HKU24 RtCoV-HKU24 Yes (rat) Yes [46] β-CoV
* Human coronavirus HKU1 HCoV-HKU1 Yes Yes [28,29]
* Murine coronavirus (Murine hepatitis coronavirus) MHV Yes (mouse) No [47]
Bat Hp-betacoronavirus Zhejiang2013 BtHpCoV-ZJ13 Yes Yes [8]
Hedgehog coronavirus 1 EriCoV-1 Yes (hedgehog) No [48]
* Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus MERSr-CoV Yes Yes Yes [49,50]
Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5 BtPiCoV-HKU5 Yes Yes [38,39,49,51,52]
Tylonycteris bat coronavirus HKU4 BtTyCoV-HKU4 Yes Yes [36,38,39,49,50,51]
Rousettus bat coronavirus GCCDC1 # BtEoCoV-GCCDC1 Yes Yes [53,54,55]
Rousettus bat coronavirus HKU9 BtRoCoV-HKU9 Yes Yes [39,55,56,57]
* Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus SARSr-CoV Yes Yes Yes [7,8,20,21,22,27,37,40,45,58,59,60,61,62,63,64]
* Betacoronavirus 1 (Human coronavirus OC43) HCoV-OC43 Yes Yes [28,29]
Wigeon coronavirus HKU20 WiCoV-HKU20 Yes (bird) Yes [65] δ-CoV
Bulbul coronavirus HKU11 BuCoV-HKU11 Yes (bird) Yes [65]
Coronavirus HKU15 PoCoV-HKU15 Yes (pig) Yes [66]
Munia coronavirus HKU13 MuCoV-HKU13 Yes (bird) Yes [65]
White-eye coronavirus HKU16 WECoV-HKU13 Yes (bird) Yes [65]
Night heron coronavirus HKU19 NHCoV-HKU19 Yes (bird) Yes [65]
Common moorhen coronavirus HKU21 CMCoV-HKU21 Yes (bird) Yes [65]
*? Beluga whale coronavirus SW1 BWCoV-SW1 Yes (whale) No [13] γ-CoV
* Avian infectious bronchitis virus IBV Yes (bird) Yes [12]

* The disease-causing CoVs are indicated and the three zoonotic CoVs are in bold. *? BWCoV-SW1 was found in a sick whale, but whether it was the etiological agent of the infection was not proven. # Carrier of this virus was confirmed as Eonycteris spelaea, but not Rousettus bats. The virus was renamed accordingly.