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 "Bufo bufo" returned 37 results

Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-bufo
Bufo spinosus Daudin, 1803
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-spinosus
Bufo bankorensis Barbour, 1908
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-bankorensis
Bufo eichwaldi Litvinchuk, Borkin, Skorinov, and Rosanov, 2008
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-eichwaldi
Bufo menglianus (Yang, 2008)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-menglianus
Bufo verrucosissimus (Pallas, 1814)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-verrucosissimus
Bufo andrewsi Schmidt, 1925
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-andrewsi
Bufo gargarizans Cantor, 1842
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-gargarizans
Bufo torrenticola Matsui, 1976
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-torrenticola
Bufo luchunnicus (Yang and Rao, 2008)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-luchunnicus
Bufo praetextatus Boie, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-praetextatus
Bufo Garsault, 1764
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo
Bufo cryptotympanicus Liu and Hu, 1962
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-cryptotympanicus
Bufo ailaoanus Kou, 1984
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-ailaoanus
Bufo tuberculatus Zarevskij, 1926
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-tuberculatus
Bufo aspinius (Rao and Yang, 1994)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-aspinius
Bufo tuberospinius (Yang, Liu, and Rao, 1996)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-tuberospinius
Bufo minshanicus Stejneger, 1926
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-minshanicus
Duttaphrynus brevirostris (Rao, 1937)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Duttaphrynus/Duttaphrynus-brevirostris
Sclerophrys tihamica (Balletto and Cherchi, 1973)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Sclerophrys/Sclerophrys-tihamica
Bufo sachalinensis Nikolskii, 1905
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-sachalinensis
Bufotes baturae (Stöck, Schmid, Steinlein, and Grosse, 1999)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufotes/Bufotes-baturae
Vandijkophrynus gariepensis (Smith, 1848)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Vandijkophrynus/Vandijkophrynus-gariepensis
Beduka koynayensis (Soman, 1963)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Beduka/Beduka-koynayensis
Duttaphrynus beddomii (Günther, 1876)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Duttaphrynus/Duttaphrynus-beddomii
Bufo pageoti Bourret, 1937
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-pageoti
Cornufer vogti (Hediger, 1934)
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Cornufer/Cornufer-vogti
Bufo formosus Boulenger, 1883
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-formosus
Sclerophrys pentoni (Anderson, 1893)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Sclerophrys/Sclerophrys-pentoni
Rhinella ocellata (Günther, 1858)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-ocellata

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