Cerithiacea was named by Férussac (1819) [m. kosnik taxon no: 10225 m. kosnik taxon no: 6038]. It is extant.

It was corrected as Cerithioidea by Golikov and Starobogatov (1975), Ponder and Warén (1988), Ward (1992), Marquet (1997), Squires (1998), Beesley (1998), Squires (1999), Todd (2001), Lozouet et al. (2001), Kosnik (2002), Jeffery (2003), Saul and Squires (2003), Harzhauser (2004), Stilwell et al. (2004), Bouchet et al. (2005), Harzhauser (2007), Cataldo (2017), Bouchet et al. (2017), Novas et al. (2019); it was corrected as Cerithoidea by Sarr et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Taenioglossa by Rivera (1957); to Archaeogastropoda by Ward and Blackwelder (1987); to Mesogastropoda by Allison (1955), Sohl (1960), Gliozzi and Malatesta (1983), Squires (1984), Squires (1987), Beu et al. (1990); to Discopoda by Ponder and Warén (1988), Marquet (1997); to Caenogastropoda by Knight et al. (1960), Ward (1992), Todd (2001); to Cerithiimorpha by Golikov and Starobogatov (1975), Jeffery (2003); to Neotaenioglossa by Squires (1998), Squires (1999), Squires and Saul (2001), Saul and Squires (2003); to Neontaenioglossa by Stilwell et al. (2004); to Sorbeoconcha by Beesley (1998), Lozouet et al. (2001), Kosnik (2002), Harzhauser (2004), Bouchet et al. (2005), Harzhauser (2007); to Caenogastropoda by Cataldo (2017); to Cerithiimorpha by Bouchet et al. (2017); to Architaenioglossa by Novas et al. (2019); and to Gastropoda by Sarr et al. (2024).