The shells of this species were used as a wind instruments by the Chavín, an ancient civilization from the northern Andean highlands of Peru.

The aperture is bright white, and the outer lip and columellar callus are often extensively orange or dull brown in old specimens.

The cladogram was based on DNA sequences of both nuclear histone H3 and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I protein-coding gene regions.

It lives in depths from the low tide mark to 15 m, but records go as deep as 30 m.[2] During the beginning of the year, in the early months, L. galeatus exhibits a gregarious behavior, forming large agglomerates in shallow waters.

This erroneous conception was based on the writings of the French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, whose classification scheme grouped strombids with the carnivorous sea snails.

[6] However, subsequent studies have refuted the concept completely, proving without a doubt that strombid gastropods are herbivorous animals.

[2] Giant conch shells were used as wind instruments by the Chavín, a pre-Incan civilization that developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru.

In 2001, twenty such instruments were excavated from the Chavín de Huantar archaeological site, which makes them nearly three thousand years old.