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Naples is located in southwest Florida on U.S. Highway 41 between Miami to the east and Fort Myers to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 16.4 square miles (42.5 km 2 ), of which 12.3 square miles (31.9 km 2 ) is land and 4.1 square miles (10.7 km 2 ), or 25.09%, is water.
The genus name comes from the Latin word ardea meaning "heron". [2] The type species was designated as the grey heron (Ardea cinerea) by George Robert Gray in 1840. [3] Some members of Ardea are clearly very closely related, such as the grey, great blue, and cocoi herons, which form a superspecies.
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The great blue heron's niche in the Old World is filled by the congeneric grey heron (Ardea cinerea), which is somewhat smaller (90–98 cm (35–39 in)), and sports a pale gray neck and legs, lacking the brown hues of the great blue heron. The great blue heron forms a superspecies with the grey heron which also includes the cocoi heron of ...
Whistling heron: Syrigma sibilatrix (Temminck, 1824) 33 Little blue heron: Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) 34 Tricolored heron: Egretta tricolor (Müller, PLS, 1776) 35 Reddish egret: Egretta rufescens (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 36 Slaty egret: Egretta vinaceigula (Sharpe, 1895) 37 Black heron: Egretta ardesiaca (Wagler, 1827) 38 Pacific reef heron