What is "chelyconus"

Chelyconus is a subgenus of sea snails, cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

In the new classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Chelyconus has become a subgenus of Conus: Conus (Chelyconus) Mörch, 1852 represented as Conus Thiele, 1929.