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 "Hyloscirtus larinopygion" returned 20 results

Hyloscirtus larinopygion (Duellman, 1973)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-larinopygion
Hyloscirtus princecharlesi Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-princecharlesi
Hyloscirtus condor Almendáriz, Brito-M., Batallas-R., and Ron, 2014
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-condor
Hyloscirtus diabolus Rivera-Correa, García-Burneo, and Grant, 2016
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-diabolus
Hyloscirtus tolkieni Sánchez-Nivicela, Falcón-Reibán, and Cisneros-Heredia, 2023
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-tolkieni
Hyloscirtus hillisi Ron, Caminer, Varela-Jaramillo, and Almeida-Reinoso, 2018
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-hillisi
Hyloscirtus sethmacfarlanei Reyes-Puig, Recalde, Recalde, Koch, Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Jost, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2022
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-sethmacfarlanei
Hyloscirtus sarampiona (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1982)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-sarampiona
Hyloscirtus pacha (Duellman and Hillis, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-pacha
Hyloscirtus criptico Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-criptico
Hyloscirtus antioquia Rivera-Correa and Faivovich, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-antioquia
Hyloscirtus tigrinus Mueses-Cisneros and Anganoy-Criollo, 2008
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-tigrinus
Hyloscirtus caucanus (Ardila-Robayo, Ruiz-Carranza, and Roa-Trujillo, 1993)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-caucanus
Hyloscirtus pantostictus (Duellman and Berger, 1982)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-pantostictus
Hyloscirtus psarolaimus (Duellman and Hillis, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-psarolaimus
Hyloscirtus ptychodactylus (Duellman and Hillis, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-ptychodactylus
Hyloscirtus staufferorum (Duellman and Coloma, 1993)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-staufferorum
Hyloscirtus lindae (Duellman and Altig, 1978)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-lindae
Hyloscirtus tapichalaca (Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus/Hyloscirtus-tapichalaca
Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyloscirtus