Lobatus

Lobatus is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Some of the species within this genus were previously placed in the genus Eustrombus.^[1]

Lobatus
Lobatus raninus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Lobatus Swainson, 1837
Type species
Strombus bituberculatus Lamarck, 1822

Species

Living and fossil species within the genus Lobatus include:^[2][3][4]

Apertural and abapertural views of a shell of Lobatus peruvianus

• Lobatus peruvianus (Swainson, 1823)
• Lobatus raninus (Gmelin, 1791)
• †Lobatus dominator (Pilsbry, 1917)
• †Lobatus galliformis (Pilsbry, 1917)
• †Lobatus haitensis (Sowerby, 1850)
• †Lobatus leidyi (Heilprin, 1887)
• †Lobatus vokesae Landau et al., 2008
• †Lobatus williamsi (Olson & Petit, 1964)

Species brought into synonymy include:

• Lobatus costatus (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Macrostrombus costatus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Lobatus galeatus (Swainson, 1823) accepted as Titanostrombus galeatus (Swainson, 1823)
• Lobatus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Aliger gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lobatus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Aliger gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lobatus goliath (Schröter, 1805) accepted as Titanostrombus goliath (Schröter, 1805)
• Lobatus magolecciai (Macsotay & Campos, 2001) accepted as Lobatus raninus (Gmelin, 1791) (junior subjective synonym)