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) and 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) and Beu et al. (1990); to Discopoda by Ponder and Warén (1988) and Marquet (1997); to Caenogastropoda by Knight et al. (1960), Ward (1992) and Todd (2001); to Cerithiimorpha by Golikov and Starobogatov (1975) and Jeffery (2003); to Neotaenioglossa by Squires (1998), Squires (1999), Squires and Saul (2001) and 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) and Harzhauser (2007); to Cerithiimorpha by Bouchet et al. (2017); to Caenogastropoda by Cataldo (2017); to Architaenioglossa by Novas et al. (2019); and to Gastropoda by Sarr et al. (2024).