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 "Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni" returned 25 results

Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (Boettger, 1893)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-fleischmanni
Hyalinobatrachium esmeralda Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-esmeralda
Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum (Taylor, 1942)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-viridissimum
Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi Castroviejo-Fisher, Ayarzagüena, and Vilà, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-tatayoi
Hyalinobatrachium duranti (Rivero, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-duranti
Hyalinobatrachium ibama Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-ibama
Hyalinobatrachium guairarepanense Señaris, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-guairarepanense
Hyalinobatrachium fragile (Rivero, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-fragile
Hyalinobatrachium bergeri (Cannatella, 1980)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-bergeri
Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum (Starrett and Savage, 1973)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-vireovittatum
Celsiella revocata (Rivero, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Celsiella/Celsiella-revocata
Hyalinobatrachium pallidum (Rivero, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-pallidum
Hyalinobatrachium Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium
Hyalinobatrachium talamancae (Taylor, 1952)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-talamancae
Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum (Barrera-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Carranza, 1989)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-aureoguttatum
Teratohyla pulverata (Peters, 1873)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Centroleninae/Teratohyla/Teratohyla-pulverata
Hyalinobatrachium munozorum (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-munozorum
Hyalinobatrachium valerioi (Dunn, 1931)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-valerioi
Hyalinobatrachium chirripoi (Taylor, 1958)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-chirripoi
Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum (Taylor, 1949)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-colymbiphyllum
Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-pellucidum
Hyalinobatrachium orientale (Rivero, 1968)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-orientale
Hyalinobatrachium mondolfii Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-mondolfii
Hyalinobatrachium taylori (Goin, 1968)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-taylori
Hyalinobatrachium cappellei (Van Lidth de Jeude, 1904)
Amphibia/Anura/Centrolenidae/Hyalinobatrachinae/Hyalinobatrachium/Hyalinobatrachium-cappellei