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 "Hylodes lateristrigatus" returned 17 results

Hylodes lateristrigatus (Baumann, 1912)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-lateristrigatus
Hylodes vanzolinii Heyer, 1982
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-vanzolinii
Hylodes ornatus (Bokermann, 1967)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-ornatus
Hylodes glaber (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-glaber
Hylodes regius Gouvêa, 1979
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-regius
Hylodes amnicola Pombal, Feio, and Haddad, 2002
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-amnicola
Hylodes phyllodes Heyer and Cocroft, 1986
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-phyllodes
Hylodes charadranaetes Heyer and Cocroft, 1986
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-charadranaetes
Hylodes uai Nascimento, Pombal, and Haddad, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-uai
Hylodes perplicatus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-perplicatus
Hylodes perere Silva and Benmaman, 2008
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-perere
Hylodes otavioi Sazima and Bokermann, 1983
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-otavioi
Hylodes magalhaesi (Bokermann, 1964)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-magalhaesi
Hylodes meridionalis (Mertens, 1927)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-meridionalis
Hylodes sazimai Haddad and Pombal, 1995
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-sazimai
Hylodes babax Heyer, 1982
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes/Hylodes-babax
Hylodes Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Hylodidae/Hylodes