| Lobatus gallus | |
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| A shell of the rooster conch, Lobatus gallus. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Lobatus |
| Species: | L. gallus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lobatus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Strombus gallus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) |
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Lobatus gallus, previously known as Strombus gallus, common name the rooster conch or rooster-tail conch,[2] is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]
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This species is found from southeast Florida and Bermuda to the West Indies and further south to Brazil.[3]
The average shell length of this species is about 12.5 cm.[3]
The maximum recorded shell length is 197 mm.[4]
Minimum recorded depth is 0.3 m.[4] Maximum recorded depth is 82 m.[4]
The following cladogram is based on sequences of nuclear histone H3 gene and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene, and shows the phylogenetic relationships of (32 analyzed) species in the genus Strombus and Lambis, including Strombus gallus, the basionym of Lobatus gallus. This cladogram was proposed by Latiolais et al (2006)[5]:
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