Lobatus

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

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]

Species

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

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)

^ 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]
^ "Lobatus [Swainson], 1837". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
^ The Paleobiology Database
^ 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.