[2] This species is found from southeast Florida and Bermuda through the West Indies and south to Brazil.

[5] With the exception of Lambis and Terebellum, the remaining taxa were previously allocated within the genus Strombus, including L. gallus.

[5] The remaining taxa were previously considered as subgenera, and were elevated to genus level by Simone in the end of his analysis.

[5] In a different approach, Latiolais and colleagues (2006) proposed another cladogram that attempts to show the phylogenetic relationships of 34 species within the family Strombidae.

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