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 ignescens" returned 33 results

Atelopus ignescens (Cornalia, 1849)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-ignescens
Atelopus mittermeieri Acosta-Galvis, Rueda-Almonacid, Velásquez-Álvarez, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Peña-Prieto, 2006
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-mittermeieri
Atelopus pastuso Coloma, Duellman, Almendáriz, Ron, Terán-Valdez, and Guayasamin, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-pastuso
Atelopus ardila Coloma, Duellman, Almendáriz, Ron, Terán-Valdez, and Guayasamin, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-ardila
Atelopus chirripoensis Savage and Bolaños, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-chirripoensis
Atelopus bomolochos Peters, 1973
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-bomolochos
Atelopus peruensis Gray and Cannatella, 1985
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-peruensis
Atelopus boulengeri Peracca, 1904
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-boulengeri
Atelopus guitarraensis Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo, and Ruiz-Carranza, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-guitarraensis
Atelopus walkeri Rivero, 1963
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-walkeri
Atelopus monohernandezii Ardila-Robayo, Osorno-Muñoz, and Ruiz-Carranza, 2002
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-monohernandezii
Atelopus angelito Ardila-Robayo and Ruiz-Carranza, 1998
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-angelito
Atelopus simulatus Ruiz-Carranza and Osorno-Muñoz, 1994
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-simulatus
Atelopus lozanoi Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo, and Ruiz-Carranza, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-lozanoi
Atelopus sernai Ruiz-Carranza and Osorno-Muñoz, 1994
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-sernai
Atelopus mandingues Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo, and Ruiz-Carranza, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-mandingues
Atelopus chrysocorallus La Marca, 1996
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-chrysocorallus
Atelopus lynchi Cannatella, 1981
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-lynchi
Atelopus nepiozomus Peters, 1973
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-nepiozomus
Atelopus ebenoides Rivero, 1963
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-ebenoides
Atelopus exiguus (Boettger, 1892)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-exiguus
Atelopus eusebianus Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-eusebianus
Atelopus muisca Rueda-Almonacid and Hoyos, 1992
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-muisca
Atelopus tamaense La Marca, García-Pérez, and Renjifo, 1990
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-tamaense
Atelopus senex Taylor, 1952
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-senex
Atelopus sorianoi La Marca, 1983
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-sorianoi
Atelopus certus Barbour, 1923
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-certus
Atelopus glyphus Dunn, 1931
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-glyphus
Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-subornatus
Atelopus pachydermus (Schmidt, 1857)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Atelopus/Atelopus-pachydermus

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