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Neptune Memorial Reef

Southeast Floridaartificial reef Man-made reef off the coast of Florida

Coordinates 25.7006, -80.09015 (from Wikidata Q2506430, 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. 2,624 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 258 records
May 658 records
Jun 207 records
Jul 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Aug 14 records
Sep 1,056 records
Oct 422 records
Nov 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Dec 8 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (204)
  2. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (184)
  3. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (168)
  4. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (160)
  5. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (140)
  6. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (97)
  7. tomtate (Haemulon aurolineatum) (91)
  8. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (79)
  9. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (72)
  10. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (67)
  11. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (64)
  12. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (62)
  13. hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) (61)
  14. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (60)
  15. Sharpnose Puffer (Canthigaster rostrata) (56)
  16. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (45)
  17. Haemulon plumierii (39)
  18. Spotfin Butterflyfish (Chaetodon ocellatus) (31)
  19. graysby (Cephalopholis cruentata) (31)
  20. reef butterflyfish (Chaetodon sedentarius) (29)

Reef heat stress: Southeast Florida region

NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5 km regional virtual station Southeast Florida. 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 Weeks11.7871 °C-weeks
SST range29.11–30.12 °C

Values refresh from NOAA when the page loads. Source: NOAA CRW virtual station: Southeast Florida (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=25.6906,25.710600000000003&decimalLongitude=-80.10015,-80.08014999999999&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: 2,563, CC_BY_4_0: 61. Contributing datasets (top 15):