See text Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.

Clavatulidae was raised, based on cladistic analysis, from subfamily to the family level by Rosenberg in 1998.

This family consists of species with a medium-sized to rather large, fusiform shell.

The siphonal canal varies between rather short (e.g. Pusionella compacta) to moderately long and slightly incurved (e.g. Fusiturris undatiruga).

The sculpture of the shell in this family shows various forms, going from a rather smooth surface (e.g. Gemmuloborsonia colorata) to being finely ribbed longitudinally and striated transversally.