The subfamily Fulgorariinae contains sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Most of the species thrive in the benthic zone between 100 and 300 m on mud and shell grit substrate.

[2][3] Though recent species are now restricted to the Asian Margin of the Pacific Ocean, from Hokkaido, Japan to Vietnam, fossil studies show that species belonging to that subfamily occurred along both the eastern and the western margins of the northern Pacific Ocean.

[4] Five taxa, related to the subgenus Psephaea, are described from the Paleocene strata of California, from the lower Miocene to the Pliocene.

In Volutidae, the absence of planktotrophic development (in most groups) does not allow exchange of genetic material between geographically separate populations.