Lobatus

Lobatus is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]

Lobatus
Lobatus raninus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Lobatus Swainson, 1837
Type species
Strombus bituberculatus Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Aliger Thiele, 1929 Eustrombus Wenz, 1940 Macrostrombus Petuch, 1994 Titanostrombus Petuch, 1994

Some of the species within this genus were previously placed in the genus Eustrombus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Lobatus include:[3][4]

• Lobatus costatus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Lobatus goliath (Schröter, 1805)
• Lobatus magolecciai (Macsotay & Campos, 2001)
• 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)

• 
  Lobatus gigas
• 
  Lobatus raninus

• 
  Lobatus costatus
• 
  Lobatus goliath
• 
  Lobatus peruvianus

References

1. Lobatus Swainson, 1837. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 March 2011.
2. Landau B. M., Kronenberg G. C. & Herbert G. S. (2008). "A large species of Lobatus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic, with notes on the genus". The Veliger 50(1): 31-38 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
3. The Paleobiology Database
4. Landau B., Kronenberg G. C. & Da Silva C. M. (2010). "A new species of Lobatus (Caenogastropoda, Strombidae) from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic, with notes on further species from the Dominican assemblages". Basteria 74(4-6): 95-109.

Further reading

• George H. Darcy (September 1981). Annotated Bibliography of the Conch Genus Strombus (Gastropoda, Strombidae) in the Western Atlantic Ocean. NOAA TECHNICAL REPORT NMFS SSRF—748. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Malcolm Baldrlge, Secretary; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, John v. Byrne, Administrator; National Marine Fisheries Service.