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Key Largo Dry Rocks (Christ of the Abyss)

Florida Keysreef reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 25.13096, -80.29422 (from Wikidata Q1740319, 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. 14,634 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Feb 1 records
  • No qualifying records
Mar 1 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 3 records
May 83 records
Jun 4,186 records
Jul 10 records
Aug 4,951 records
Sep 4,130 records
Oct 411 records
Nov 609 records
Dec 240 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (1,035)
  2. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (887)
  3. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (764)
  4. Ocyurus chrysurus (748)
  5. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (740)
  6. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (664)
  7. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (600)
  8. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (544)
  9. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (541)
  10. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (536)
  11. Haemulon plumierii (510)
  12. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (422)
  13. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (341)
  14. Haemulon sciurus (331)
  15. yellowtail damselfish (Microspathodon chrysurus) (241)
  16. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (226)
  17. threespot damselfish (Stegastes planifrons) (224)
  18. cocoa damselfish (Stegastes variabilis) (199)
  19. greenblotch parrotfish (Sparisoma atomarium) (194)
  20. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (191)

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=25.12096,25.140960000000003&decimalLongitude=-80.30422,-80.28421999999999&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: 14,422, CC_BY_4_0: 212. Contributing datasets (top 15):