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 "Desmognathus fuscus" returned 17 results

Desmognathus fuscus (Green, 1818)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-fuscus
Desmognathus bairdi Pyron and Beamer, 2023
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-bairdi
Desmognathus auriculatus (Holbrook, 1838)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-auriculatus
Desmognathus lycos Pyron and Beamer, 2023
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-lycos
Desmognathus conanti Rossman, 1958
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-conanti
Desmognathus welteri Barbour, 1950
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-welteri
Desmognathus carolinensis Dunn, 1916
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-carolinensis
Desmognathus santeetlah Tilley, 1981
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-santeetlah
Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-brimleyorum
Desmognathus planiceps Newman, 1955
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-planiceps
Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-ochrophaeus
Desmognathus Baird, 1850
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus
Desmognathus imitator Dunn, 1927
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-imitator
Desmognathus monticola Dunn, 1916
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Desmognathus/Desmognathus-monticola
Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Hemidactylium/Hemidactylium-scutatum
Salamandra atra Laurenti, 1768
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Salamandrinae/Salamandra/Salamandra-atra
Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Eurycea/Eurycea-bislineata