Pyruconus | |
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Apertural view of shell of Conus patricius (Hinds, 1843) | |
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Subgenus: | Pyruconus Olsson, 1967
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Conus patricius Hinds, 1843 | |
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Conus (Pyruconus) Olsson, 1967 |
Pyruconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [1] [2]
In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Pyruconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Pyruconus)Olsson, 1967 (type species: Conus patricius Hinds, 1843) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758 [3]