Carysfort Reef

What you might see, by month

Counts of species records within about 1 km of this point, from GBIF.org, filtered to CC0 and CC BY 4.0 licenses only (land animals and birds excluded). These come from survey effort, so more records do not mean more animals. They are not a sighting forecast. 26,867 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Most-recorded species here (all months)

1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (1,757)
2. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (1,587)
3. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (1,482)
4. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (1,342)
5. Ocyurus chrysurus (1,111)
6. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (1,087)
7. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (1,045)
8. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (986)
9. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (972)
10. Haemulon plumierii (945)
11. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (808)
12. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (764)
13. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (673)
14. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (581)
15. Haemulon sciurus (541)
16. hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) (410)
17. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (401)
18. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (362)
19. Schoolmaster (Lutjanus apodus) (326)
20. Gray Snapper (Lutjanus griseus) (310)

Reef heat stress: Florida Keys region

NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5 km regional virtual station Florida Keys. This covers the whole region, not this exact site. Latest value at build time (2026-10-12):

Values refresh from NOAA when the page loads. Source: NOAA CRW virtual station: Florida Keys (data, method). Credit: NOAA Coral Reef Watch.

Conditions links

• NWS forecast for this point (National Weather Service; marine forecast for offshore points)
• Nearest NDBC station: VAKF1, Virginia Key, FL, about 57 km away. Buoy readings are measured, not forecast.
• NWS Key West / NWS Miami marine forecasts

Depths, entry details and mooring info aren't listed yet because we haven't verified them from a citable source.

Data citation

GBIF.org (2026-10-14) GBIF Occurrence Data, queried via the GBIF API: https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?decimalLatitude=25.2075,25.227500000000003&decimalLongitude=-80.22472,-80.20472&license=CC0_1_0&license=CC_BY_4_0&taxonKey=44&taxonKey=206&taxonKey=229&taxonKey=136&taxonKey=225&occurrenceStatus=PRESENT&limit=0. Records by license: CC0_1_0: 26,404, CC_BY_4_0: 463. Contributing datasets (top 15):

• National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of fish communities in the Florida Keys during 2016 — doi:10.15468/nzvpq2 (2,827 records) — GBIF dataset page
• National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of fish communities in the Florida Keys during 2014 — doi:10.15468/jbl2rv (2,002 records) — GBIF dataset page
• National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of fish communities in the Florida Keys during 2018 — doi:10.15468/ejufy4 (1,910 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2012 — doi:10.15468/vnvtmr (1,822 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2011 — doi:10.15468/06aqle (1,532 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2008 — doi:10.15468/7zofww (1,515 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1995 — doi:10.15468/uzpt9m (1,390 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2001 — doi:10.15468/t0r3vt (1,269 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2003 — doi:10.15468/es1iso (1,238 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1996 — doi:10.15468/gaekez (1,139 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1997 — doi:10.15468/419say (1,096 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2010 — doi:10.15468/6chrsz (1,078 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2009 — doi:10.15468/tnn5ra (971 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2007 — doi:10.15468/dfyb57 (959 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2005 — doi:10.15468/zq1ep2 (947 records) — GBIF dataset page