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 "Bokermannohyla circumdata" returned 19 results

Bokermannohyla circumdata (Cope, 1871)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-circumdata
Bokermannohyla sagarana Leite, Pezzuti, and Drummond, 2011
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-sagarana
Bokermannohyla napolii Carvalho, Giaretta, and Magrini, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-napolii
Bokermannohyla diamantina Napoli and Juncá, 2006
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-diamantina
Bokermannohyla ravida (Caramaschi, Napoli, and Bernardes, 2001)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-ravida
Bokermannohyla capra Napoli and Pimenta, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-capra
Bokermannohyla caramaschii (Napoli, 2005)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-caramaschii
Bokermannohyla gouveai (Peixoto and Cruz, 1992)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-gouveai
Bokermannohyla carvalhoi (Peixoto, 1981)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-carvalhoi
Bokermannohyla lucianae (Napoli and Pimenta, 2003)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-lucianae
Bokermannohyla izecksohni (Jim and Caramaschi, 1979)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-izecksohni
Bokermannohyla luctuosa (Pombal and Haddad, 1993)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-luctuosa
Bokermannohyla astartea (Bokermann, 1967)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-astartea
Bokermannohyla ahenea (Napoli and Caramaschi, 2004)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-ahenea
Bokermannohyla sazimai (Cardoso and Andrade, 1982)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-sazimai
Bokermannohyla hylax (Heyer, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-hylax
Bokermannohyla ibitipoca (Caramaschi and Feio, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-ibitipoca
Bokermannohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla
Bokermannohyla nanuzae (Bokermann and Sazima, 1973)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Bokermannohyla/Bokermannohyla-nanuzae