Pyruconus

{{Short description|Subgenus of gastropods}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Pyruconus

| image = Pyruconus patricius.JPG

| image_caption = Apertural view of shell of Conus patricius (Hinds, 1843)

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

| superfamilia = Conoidea

| familia = Conidae

| genus= Conus

| subgenus = Pyruconus

| subgenus_authority = Olsson, 1967

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = Conus (Pyruconus) Olsson, 1967

| type_species= Conus patricius Hinds, 1843

}}

Pyruconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2011). Pyruconus Olsson, 1967. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578798 on 2012-01-21Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.

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[https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyu055 Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23]