''Lobatus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of very large

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

s, marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the

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Strombidae Strombidae, common name, commonly known as the true conchs, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of medium-sized to very large sea snails in the superfamily (zoology), superfamily Stromboidea, and the Epifamily Neostromboid ...

, the true conchs. Some of the species within this genus were previously placed in the genus '' Eustrombus''.

Species

Living and fossil species within the genus ''Lobatus'' include: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 ''Basteria'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Netherlands Malacological Society, covering research on molluscs. It was established in 1936 and is now published mostly in English. The editor-in-chief is Ruud Bank. A ...

'' 74(4-6): 95-109. Strombus peruvianus 15a

*'' Lobatus peruvianus'' ( Swainson, 1823) *''

Lobatus raninus ''Lobatus raninus'', common name the hawk-wing conch, is a species of medium to large sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Strombidae, the true conchs.Bouchet, P. (2010). Lobatus raninus (Gmelin, 1 ...

'' (

Gmelin Gmelin may refer to: * Karl Christian Gmelin, Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis, Alsatica et confinium regionum cis- et transrhenania'' (1806) * Charles Gmelin (1872–1950), British Olympic athlete * ...

, 1791) *

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'' 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 ''Macrostrombus costatus'', formerly known as ''Strombus costatus'' and ''Lobatus costatus'', or commonly known as the milk conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. They are an ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) *''Lobatus galeatus'' (Swainson, 1823) accepted as '' Titanostrombus galeatus'' (Swainson, 1823) *''Lobatus gallus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as ''

Aliger gallus ''Aliger gallus'', previously known as ''Strombus gallus'', common name the rooster conch or rooster-tail conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.MolluscaBase eds. (202 ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *''Lobatus gigas'' (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as ''

Aliger gigas ''Aliger gigas'', originally known as ''Strombus gigas'' or more recently as ''Lobatus gigas'', common name, commonly known as the queen conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family of true c ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *''Lobatus goliath'' (Schröter, 1805) accepted as ''

Titanostrombus goliath ''Titanostrombus goliath'', previously known as ''Lobatus goliath'' and ''Strombus goliath'', common name the goliath conch, is a species of very large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. ''T. ...

'' (Schröter, 1805) *''Lobatus magolecciai'' (Macsotay & Campos, 2001) accepted as ''

'' (Gmelin, 1791) (junior subjective synonym)

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