Anthony’s Key Resort House Reef

Welcome to Front Porch, the house reef of Anthony’s Key Resort! Whether you’re a diver or a snorkeler, this shore-accessible site is the perfect place to explore Meso-American Barrier Reef, which gently hugs our resort

Marine life at this site

You can see eels, grouper, and octopus in the reef. You can also see schools of blue tangs, parrotfish, angelfish, damselfish, sea fans, star coral, and brain coral.

Based on open species observationswithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Atlantic Ghost Crab

Ocypode quadrata1 obs.

Greater Star Coral

Montastraea cavernosa1 obs.

Caribbean Spiny Lobster

Panulirus argus1 obs.

Flamingo Tongue Snail

Cyphoma gibbosum1 obs.

Caribbean Reef Squid

Sepioteuthis sepioidea1 obs.

Svamp

Callyspongia plicifera1 obs.

West Indian Sea Egg

Tripneustes ventricosus1 obs.

Massive Starlet Coral

Siderastrea siderea1 obs.

Mountainous Star Coral

Orbicella faveolata1 obs.

Giant Anemone

Condylactis gigantea1 obs.

Grooved Brain Coral

Diploria labyrinthiformis1 obs.

Branching Fire Coral

Millepora alcicornis1 obs.

Sally Lightfoot Crab

Grapsus grapsus1 obs.

Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin

Diadema antillarum1 obs.

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata2 obs.

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Svamp

Agelas tubulata1 obs.

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Stinker Sponge

Ircinia felix1 obs.

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Svamp

Ectyoplasia ferox1 obs.

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Svamp

Aplysina archeri1 obs.