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Western Sambo

Florida Keysreef coral reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 24.47778, -81.71333 (from Wikidata Q7988266, 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. 27,004 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 112 records
Feb 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Mar 96 records
Apr 16 records
  • No qualifying records
May 1,778 records
Jun 6,541 records
Jul 5,444 records
Aug 5,442 records
Sep 4,112 records
Oct 1,443 records
Nov 1,163 records
Dec 26 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (1,812)
  2. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (1,481)
  3. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (1,331)
  4. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (1,303)
  5. Ocyurus chrysurus (1,155)
  6. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (935)
  7. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (897)
  8. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (884)
  9. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (754)
  10. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (721)
  11. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (664)
  12. yellowtail damselfish (Microspathodon chrysurus) (600)
  13. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (584)
  14. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (478)
  15. Haemulon plumierii (410)
  16. dusky damselfish (Stegastes adustus) (362)
  17. Haemulon sciurus (361)
  18. foureye butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) (360)
  19. cocoa damselfish (Stegastes variabilis) (350)
  20. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (346)

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=24.467779999999998,24.48778&decimalLongitude=-81.72333,-81.70333&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: 26,866, CC_BY_4_0: 138. Contributing datasets (top 15):