Lobatus
Genus of gastropods
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
- 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)