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Tennessee Reef

Florida Keysreef coral reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 24.7667, -80.75 (from Wikidata Q7700145, 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. 12,945 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 404 records
Jun 989 records
Jul 2,867 records
Aug 4,270 records
Sep 3,004 records
Oct 747 records
Nov 652 records
Dec 8 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (909)
  2. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (847)
  3. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (792)
  4. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (706)
  5. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (702)
  6. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (588)
  7. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (587)
  8. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (492)
  9. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (468)
  10. Haemulon plumierii (383)
  11. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (369)
  12. tomtate (Haemulon aurolineatum) (339)
  13. hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) (326)
  14. Grey Angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) (260)
  15. bridled goby (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum) (258)
  16. greenblotch parrotfish (Sparisoma atomarium) (248)
  17. cocoa damselfish (Stegastes variabilis) (219)
  18. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (177)
  19. Ocyurus chrysurus (173)
  20. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (173)

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=24.7567,24.7767&decimalLongitude=-80.76,-80.74&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: 12,805, CC_BY_4_0: 140. Contributing datasets (top 15):