See text Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.

Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.

This family occurs worldwide.

Many species are found in deep water.

This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): Genera in the family Cancellariidae include:[1] The following genus was also accepted in 1936 by the Royal Society of New Zealand[2]