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Davis Reef

Florida Keysreef coral reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 24.92194, -80.50417 (from Wikidata Q5241955, 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. 15,745 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 0 records
  • No qualifying records
May 583 records
Jun 2,582 records
Jul 2,336 records
Aug 8,402 records
Sep 1,788 records
Oct 8 records
Nov 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Dec 46 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (1,005)
  2. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (912)
  3. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (778)
  4. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (713)
  5. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (691)
  6. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (631)
  7. Ocyurus chrysurus (608)
  8. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (605)
  9. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (560)
  10. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (546)
  11. Haemulon plumierii (475)
  12. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (439)
  13. Haemulon sciurus (432)
  14. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (377)
  15. brown chromis (Chromis multilineata) (300)
  16. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (294)
  17. bridled goby (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum) (281)
  18. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (267)
  19. Schoolmaster (Lutjanus apodus) (232)
  20. spotted goatfish (Pseudupeneus maculatus) (213)

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=24.911939999999998,24.93194&decimalLongitude=-80.51417000000001,-80.49417&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: 15,664, CC_BY_4_0: 81. Contributing datasets (top 15):