Acropora lutkeni Crossland, 1952

Wallace, Carden C., Done, Barbara J. & Muir, Paul R., 2012, Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Memoirs of the Queensland Museu Nature 57, pp. 1-258 : 122

Acropora lutkeni Crossland, 1952

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Acropora lutkeni Crossland, 1952: 229 , pl. 41 fig. 1, pl. 46 fig. 2.

Type locality. June Reef, Great Barrier Reef (holotype NHM).

MTQ Holdings. Red Sea: G55264 Saudi Arabia; Socotra: G56962; Kenya: G58942, G59127, G59629–35; Mayotte: G63316–17; Seychelles: G47937–40, G59497; Mauritius: G51837–44, G54455–56, G54910; Maldives: G52081, G59821–25, G59895–0 3, G60264, G60267, G60272, G60276–77, G60279, G60281–82, G60286, G60289, G60362, G61759; Chagos: G51420–30, G51436– 38, G51458–61; Sri Lanka: G55777, G56341–42; Thailand: G32793, G32806, G55978, G56090–93, G56441–42, G59403–0 4, G59408; Malaysia: G59146; Singapore: G41017; Indonesia: G47184–85, G49641 Sumatra; G49642–43 Flores; G49647–48 Kalimantan; G47254, G47437–44, G49644–46 Sulawesi; G54306, G54445–46, G54451 Molucca Sea; G52412–13, G54305, G54447–50 Halmahera; G47436 Banda Sea; G36033 Irian Jaya; Australia: G38393, G41157, G48914, G60660, G61681 West; G27562, G27566–68, G27570–71, G27573, G27575–76, G27580, G27584, G28557–58, G28560, G28562–63, G28565, G28569, G28572, G28693–99, G28702, G28704–5, G28757, G28760–61, G28868, G29520–21, G29524, G29526–27, G29529, G29534, G30610, G30613–15, G32716–20, G32723–28, G32731–33, G32735, G32737, G32740, G32745–46, G35143, G43583, G48296, G48327, G60544, G62946–54 Great Barrier Reef; G28763, G30611, G32729–30, G32736, G32739, G47278, G57488, G58416, G64969–73 South-East; G27563–65, G27569, G27572, G27574, G27577–79, G27581, G27583, G28561, G28564, G28567, G28570, G28700, G28703, G28706, G28756, G28762, G28764, G28788, G29532, G29535, G30609, G30612, G32722, G32741, G33442, G33490, G33522–23, G39845, G39848, G57875, G59365, G64779 Coral Sea; South China Sea: G46828, G52208–19; Japan: G38030, G47782, G47790–91, G47813, G62324; Taiwan: G43853, G45937, G47579, G47596; Palau: G63117; Guam: G36596–97, G40740, G53648–49; Papua New Guinea: G35613, G35671, G53105, G53412; Louisiade Archipelago: G35367, G54409–12; Micronesia: G38011 Chuuk; G59270–71, G62388, G62469 Pohnpei; Solomon Is.: G58588, G58997; New Caledonia: G34974–75, G34987, G61041, G61044; Chesterfield Atoll: G27582, G28559, G28568, G28571, G28573, G28701, G28758–59, G29522– 23, G29528, G29530–31, G29533, G35689–90; Marshall Is.: G33135, G56142–44, G56149, G56233–34, G57321, G57324; Kiribati: G51223; Fiji: G40934, G40943; Samoa: G35602, G34721, G34730, G34735, G34878, G41200–03, G41292, G41298, G54264; Niue: G54672; Cook Is.: G35727, G35736, G35846, G35855, G35858–59, G35868–69, G35923–24, G35933–37, G35939, G36091–95, G39526, G46689, G49055–58, G49133–48, G53912–13; French Polynesia: G44035, G44040, G44043, G53576, G58629, G58649, G58769; Society Is.: G49062; Tahiti: G54692; Austral Is.: G63148–51; Pitcairn Is.: G35750, G54613–16.

Species group: nasuta .

Description. Colony outline: determinate, predominantly corymbose. Branches: tertiary branching order absent; length: 5 0–100 mm; diameter:>19.9 mm, radial-dominated, terete; radial crowding: some touching; axial/radial ratio:>1:10. Axial corallites: greater than three synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.9–4.3 mm; inner diameter 0.6–1.2 mm; primary septa to 2/3 R. Radial corallites: medium; greater than three synapticular rings; two sizes; inner wall developed; shape: tubular; openings: ovalrounded; primary septa to 1/3 R. Coenosteum: different on and between radials: between radials: reticulate, on radials: open spinules; spinule shape: laterally flattened.

Further literature. Wallace & Wolstenholme (1998), Wallace (1999), Veron (2000), Pillay et al. (2002), Dai & Horng (2009), Turak & DeVantier (2011).

Figures

FIG. 59. Acropora lutkeni, G59901, Mau Faru, Ari Atoll, Maldives, 2006 (photo: P. Muir). Map of documented distribution: blue squares = MTQ specimens; pink squares = literature records; orange diamonds = type localities (where given), including primary synonyms.