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Ginnie Springs
Florida Springsspring privately owned park in Gilchrist County, Florida, USA
Coordinates 29.836, -82.7 (from Wikidata Q16887763, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point. · Wikipedia
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. 797 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.
- Remasellus parvus (2)
- Redbreast Sunfish (Lepomis auritus) (1)
- Eastern Meso-American Slider (Trachemys venusta) (1)
- Fontal Dwarf Crawfish (Cambarellus schmitti) (1)
- Percina westfalli (1)
- White Tubercled Crayfish (Procambarus spiculifer) (1)
- Spotted Sucker (Minytrema melanops) (1)
- Redbreast Sunfish (Lepomis auritus) (1)
- Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) (1)
- American Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) (1)
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
- Spotted Sunfish (Lepomis punctatus) (2)
- White Tubercled Crayfish (Procambarus spiculifer) (1)
- American Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) (1)
- No qualifying records
- Slough Crayfish (Procambarus fallax) (1)
- No qualifying records
- Hobb's cave amphipod (Crangonyx hobbsi) (13)
Most-recorded species here (all months)
- Hobb's cave amphipod (Crangonyx hobbsi) (13)
- Remasellus parvus (2)
- White Tubercled Crayfish (Procambarus spiculifer) (2)
- Redbreast Sunfish (Lepomis auritus) (2)
- Spotted Sunfish (Lepomis punctatus) (2)
- American Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) (2)
- Percina westfalli (1)
- Slough Crayfish (Procambarus fallax) (1)
- Fontal Dwarf Crawfish (Cambarellus schmitti) (1)
- Spotted Sucker (Minytrema melanops) (1)
- Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) (1)
- Eastern Meso-American Slider (Trachemys venusta) (1)
- Black True Mullet (Mugil cephalus) (1)
Reef heat stress
Not applicable: this is a freshwater spring. NOAA Coral Reef Watch monitors coral reef sea-surface temperatures.
Conditions links
- NWS forecast for this point (National Weather Service; marine forecast for offshore points)
- Spring flow and water levels: check the park or operator and USGS Water Data for Florida. Rivers in flood can close spring diving.
- Cave and cavern areas need cave training. Never enter an overhead environment without it.
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=29.825999999999997,29.846&decimalLongitude=-82.71000000000001,-82.69&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: CC_BY_4_0: 788, CC0_1_0: 9. Contributing datasets (top 15):
- EOD – eBird Observation Dataset — doi:10.15468/aomfnb (754 records) — GBIF dataset page
- INSDC Sequences — doi:10.15468/sbmztx (15 records) — GBIF dataset page
- iNaturalist Research-grade Observations — doi:10.15468/ab3s5x (14 records) — GBIF dataset page
- Birda - Global Observation Dataset — doi:10.15468/6kud7x (6 records) — GBIF dataset page
- International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) — doi:10.15468/inygc6 (2 records) — GBIF dataset page
- NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US) — doi:10.15468/hnhrg3 (2 records) — GBIF dataset page
- NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection — doi:10.36102/dwc.8 (2 records) — GBIF dataset page
- Invertebrate Zoology Division, Yale Peabody Museum — doi:10.15468/0lkr3w (1 records) — GBIF dataset page
- Marine Invertebrate voucher specimens at the Florida Biodiversity Collection, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission — doi:10.15468/bfd6ci (1 records) — GBIF dataset page