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'''''Lobatus galeatus''''', [[common name|commonly known]] as the '''Eastern Pacific giant conch''', is a [[species]] of large [[sea snail]], a [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Strombidae]], the true conchs and their allies.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|565365 |''Lobatus galeatus'' (Swainson, 1823)|||WoRMS (2013). Lobatus galeatus (Swainson, 1823). Accessed through: [[World Register of Marine Species]] at <nowiki>http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565365</nowiki> on 04 December 2013}}</ref> It is an Eastern [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] species that occurs from the Gulf of California to [[Peru]]. Giant conch shells were used as a [[wind instruments]] by the [[Chavín]], an ancient [[civilization]] from the northern [[Andean]] highlands of Peru. They are still used for this purpose in the Andes, where they are known as ''pututu''.