Cancellariidae Forbes & Hanley 1851

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.

Distribution

This family occurs worldwide. Many species are found in deep water.

Taxonomy

This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

• Cancellariinae Forbes & Hanley, 1851 - synonym: Trigonostomatinae Cossmann, 1899
• Admetinae Troschel, 1865 - synonym: Paladmetidae Stephenson, 1941
• Plesiotritoninae Beu & Maxwell, 1937

Genera

Genera in the family Cancellariidae include:^[1]

The following genus was also accepted in 1936 by the Royal Society of New Zealand ^[2]

• Anapepta Finlay, 1930 ^[3][4]

References

• Verhecken A. (2007). Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema : 29(2): 281-364
• Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp