title: Lobatus
text: # 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.
  
  ## Species
  
  Living and fossil species within the genus Lobatus include:
  
  * 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)
  