Forcipulatacea

{{Short description|Superorder of sea stars}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Forcipulatacea

| image_alt = A specimen of Asterias rubens.

| image_caption = Asterias rubens

| image = Asterias_rubens.jpg

| taxon = Forcipulatacea

| authority = Blake, 1987{{cite web |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=582527 |title=WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species: Forcipulatacea |last=Mah |first=Christopher |date=2011-10-20 |website=World Register of Marine Species |access-date=2024-01-12}}

| subdivision_ranks = Orders

| subdivision = See text

}}

The Forcipulatacea are a superorder of sea stars.{{cite journal|author1=Fau, Marine|author2=Villier, Loïc|title=Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Echinodermata: Asteroidea): insights from ossicle morphology|year=2020|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=189|issue=3|pages=921–952|doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz127|url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/189/3/921/5669946|doi-access=free}}