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 "Dendropsophus parviceps" returned 23 results

Dendropsophus parviceps (Boulenger, 1882)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-parviceps
Dendropsophus kamagarini Rivadeneira, Venegas, and Ron, 2018
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-kamagarini
Dendropsophus frosti Motta, Castroviejo-Fisher, Venegas, Orrico, and Padial, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-frosti
Dendropsophus kubricki Rivadeneira, Venegas, and Ron, 2018
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-kubricki
Dendropsophus subocularis (Dunn, 1934)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-subocularis
Dendropsophus grandisonae (Goin, 1966)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-grandisonae
Dendropsophus pauiniensis (Heyer, 1977)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-pauiniensis
Dendropsophus padreluna (Kaplan and Ruiz-Carranza, 1997)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-padreluna
Dendropsophus virolinensis (Kaplan and Ruiz-Carranza, 1997)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-virolinensis
Dendropsophus yaracuyanus (Mijares-Urrutia and Rivero, 2000)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-yaracuyanus
Dendropsophus counani Fouquet, Orrico, Ernst, Blanc, Martinez, Vacher, Rodrigues, Ouboter, Jairam, and Ron, 2015
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-counani
Dendropsophus luteoocellatus (Roux, 1927)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-luteoocellatus
Dendropsophus bokermanni (Goin, 1960)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-bokermanni
Dendropsophus schubarti (Bokermann, 1963)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-schubarti
Dendropsophus giesleri (Mertens, 1950)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-giesleri
Dendropsophus microps (Peters, 1872)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-microps
Dendropsophus timbeba (Martins and Cardoso, 1987)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-timbeba
Dendropsophus Fitzinger, 1843
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus
Dendropsophus garagoensis (Kaplan, 1991)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-garagoensis
Dendropsophus praestans (Duellman and Trueb, 1983)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-praestans
Dendropsophus ruschii (Weygoldt and Peixoto, 1987)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-ruschii
Dendropsophus gaucheri (Lescure and Marty, 2000)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-gaucheri
Dendropsophus brevifrons (Duellman and Crump, 1974)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Dendropsophus/Dendropsophus-brevifrons