Endangered
Acropora lutkeni
Acropora lutkeni
Acropora lutkeni is a staghorn coral in the family Acroporidae (order Scleractinia), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The species is grey, purple, or cream-brown in colour, and it looks similar to Acropora forskali.
Range and habitat
It occurs in the central Indo-Pacific, Japan, Australia, the northern Indian Ocean, the East China Sea, southeast Asia, and the central and western Pacific Ocean. The species also occurs in the south Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Palau, the Andaman Islands, Fiji, the Philippines, the Banggai Islands, Samoa, the Raja Ampat Islands, the Line Islands, Papua New Guinea, and the Chagos Archipelago. It exists at depths of between 3 and 12 metres (9.8 and 39.4 ft) and is found on upper slopes that are exposed to wave action and currents, on edges of reefs, and on submerged reefs.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
It exists at depths of between 3 and 12 m (10 and 39 ft) and probably spawns in October.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Branching acroporids are among the first corals to bleach in a marine heatwave and among the first to smash in a storm or under an anchor.
Acropora lutkeni is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Acropora lutkeni, Wikidata item Q13227593. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
