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Cheeca Rocks

Florida Keysreef coral reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 24.90389, -80.61611 (from Wikidata Q5089248, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point. · Wikipedia

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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. 9,888 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Feb 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Mar 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 1 records
May 536 records
Jun 1,633 records
Jul 2,938 records
Aug 3,960 records
Sep 85 records
Oct 480 records
Nov 248 records
Dec 1 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. Haemulon plumierii (689)
  2. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (678)
  3. Haemulon sciurus (627)
  4. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (397)
  5. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (377)
  6. Ocyurus chrysurus (365)
  7. porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus) (335)
  8. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (319)
  9. Gray Snapper (Lutjanus griseus) (306)
  10. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (278)
  11. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (265)
  12. cocoa damselfish (Stegastes variabilis) (245)
  13. Schoolmaster (Lutjanus apodus) (243)
  14. bridled goby (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum) (242)
  15. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (237)
  16. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (196)
  17. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (186)
  18. Bermuda chub (Kyphosus sectatrix) (171)
  19. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (168)
  20. Grey Angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) (167)

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):

Bleaching alert level (7-day max)Bleaching Watch
Degree Heating Weeks16.7671 °C-weeks
SST range29.73–30.58 °C

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

Conditions links

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=24.89389,24.913890000000002&decimalLongitude=-80.62611000000001,-80.60611&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: 9,564, CC_BY_4_0: 324. Contributing datasets (top 15):