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Vortex Spring

Florida Springsspring freshwater spring and cave diving site in Florida

Coordinates 30.7715, -85.9481 (from Wikidata Q7941924, 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. 399 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 16 records
  • No qualifying records
Feb 109 records
  • No qualifying records
Mar 24 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 111 records
  • No qualifying records
May 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Jun 13 records
  • No qualifying records
Jul 13 records
  • No qualifying records
Aug 4 records
  • No qualifying records
Sep 32 records
  • No qualifying records
Oct 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Nov 12 records
  • No qualifying records
Dec 27 records
  • No qualifying records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. Spotted Sunfish (Lepomis punctatus) (4)
  2. Speckled Madtom (Noturus leptacanthus) (2)
  3. Mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis) (2)
  4. Lake Chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta) (2)
  5. Spotted Sucker (Minytrema melanops) (2)
  6. Sailfin Shiner (Pteronotropis hypselopterus) (2)
  7. Coastal Shiner (Notropis petersoni) (2)
  8. silverjaw minnow (Notropis buccatus) (2)
  9. Weed Shiner (Notropis texanus) (2)
  10. blackbanded darter (Percina nigrofasciata) (2)
  11. Brown Darter (Etheostoma edwini) (2)
  12. Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) (2)
  13. Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) (2)
  14. Longear Sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) (2)
  15. American Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) (2)
  16. pirate perch (Aphredoderus sayanus) (2)
  17. blackspotted topminnow (Fundulus olivaceus) (2)
  18. Blacktail Shiner (Cyprinella venusta) (2)

Reef heat stress

Not applicable: this is a freshwater spring. NOAA Coral Reef Watch monitors coral reef sea-surface temperatures.

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=30.761499999999998,30.7815&decimalLongitude=-85.9581,-85.93809999999999&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: 335, CC0_1_0: 64. Contributing datasets (top 15):