Its species can be found worldwide mainly in tropic and subtropic seas on rocky intertidal shores, seagrass beds and algal fronds, but also in estuarine and freshwater habitats.

[3] Their fossil record of this superfamily can be traced back as far as the early Triassic[1][4] but they began radiating mainly during the Cretaceous.

[6] However the phylogenetic relationships between its families are still under investigation because mitochondrial recombinant DNA sequences failed to resolve these questions.

[citation needed] According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005),[7] the following families are included in Cerithioidea: (Extinct taxa indicated by a dagger, †.)

[1] Changes include: superfamily Cerithioidea In the updated taxonomy by Bouchet et al. (2017)are listed below:[9][10] Unassigned: The following two extinct families were moved out: