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Sombrero Key

Florida Keysreef coral reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 24.62611, -81.11056 (from Wikidata Q7559331, 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. 18,388 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 19 records
Feb 6 records
  • operculate mud shrimp (Pomatogebia operculata) (1)
Mar 34 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 29 records
  • longfinger purse crab (Iliacantha subglobosa) (1)
  • dwarf keyhole limpet (Diodora minuta) (1)
May 39 records
Jun 4,618 records
Jul 5,818 records
Aug 1,503 records
Sep 5,002 records
Oct 99 records
Nov 134 records
Dec 28 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (1,163)
  2. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (1,009)
  3. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (807)
  4. Ocyurus chrysurus (786)
  5. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (686)
  6. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (685)
  7. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (620)
  8. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (553)
  9. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (517)
  10. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (476)
  11. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (443)
  12. Haemulon sciurus (410)
  13. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (406)
  14. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (338)
  15. Haemulon plumierii (297)
  16. Schoolmaster (Lutjanus apodus) (278)
  17. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (257)
  18. brown chromis (Chromis multilineata) (228)
  19. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (226)
  20. bridled goby (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum) (211)

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=24.61611,24.636110000000002&decimalLongitude=-81.12056000000001,-81.10056&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: 17,863, CC_BY_4_0: 525. Contributing datasets (top 15):