[3] Like other species in the same genus, Lobatus raninus has a robust, somewhat heavy and solid shell, with a distinct stromboid notch.

The body whorl is dorsally ornamented by characteristic coarse spiral ridges.

[4] With the exception of Lambis and Terebellum, the remaining taxa were previously allocated within the genus Strombus.

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

[1][4] A different approach, this time based on sequences of nuclear histone H3 and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes was proposed by Latiolais et al. (2006).