Amphibian Species of the World

Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Search for "Atelopus flavescens" returned 33 results

Atelopus flavescens Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-flavescens
Atelopus sanjosei Rivero and Serna, 1989
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-sanjosei
Atelopus franciscus Lescure, 1974
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-franciscus
Atelopus arthuri Peters, 1973
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-arthuri
Atelopus halihelos Peters, 1973
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-halihelos
Atelopus coynei Miyata, 1980
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-coynei
Atelopus carauta Ruiz-Carranza and Hernández-Camacho, 1978
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-carauta
Atelopus pictiventris Kattan, 1986
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-pictiventris
Atelopus longibrachius Rivero, 1963
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-longibrachius
Atelopus minutulus Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Ardila-Robayo, 1988
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-minutulus
Atelopus pinangoi Rivero, 1982
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-pinangoi
Atelopus farci Lynch, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-farci
Atelopus seminiferus Cope, 1874
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-seminiferus
Atelopus spurrelli Boulenger, 1914
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-spurrelli
Atelopus elegans (Boulenger, 1882)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-elegans
Atelopus barbotini Lescure, 1981
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-barbotini
Atelopus chiriquiensis Shreve, 1936
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-chiriquiensis
Atelopus mucubajiensis Rivero, 1974
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-mucubajiensis
Atelopus pedimarmoratus Rivero, 1963
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-pedimarmoratus
Atelopus tamaense La Marca, García-Pérez, and Renjifo, 1990
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-tamaense
Atelopus mindoensis Peters, 1973
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-mindoensis
Atelopus planispina Jiménez de la Espada, 1875
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-planispina
Atelopus erythropus Boulenger, 1903
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-erythropus
Atelopus palmatus Andersson, 1945
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-palmatus
Atelopus nicefori Rivero, 1963
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-nicefori
Atelopus Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus
Atelopus cruciger (Lichtenstein and Martens, 1856)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-cruciger
Atelopus carbonerensis Rivero, 1974
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-carbonerensis
Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-subornatus
Atelopus tricolor Boulenger, 1902
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-tricolor

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