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 "Hyperolius marmoratus" returned 16 results

Hyperolius marmoratus Rapp, 1842
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-marmoratus
Hyperolius marginatus Peters, 1854
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-marginatus
Hyperolius protchei Rochebrune, 1885
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-protchei
Hyperolius gularis Ahl, 1931
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-gularis
Hyperolius maestus Rochebrune, 1885
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-maestus
Hyperolius parallelus Günther, 1858
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-parallelus
Hyperolius noblei Ahl, 1931
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-noblei
Hyperolius mariae Barbour and Loveridge, 1928
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-mariae
Hyperolius glandicolor Peters, 1878
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-glandicolor
Hyperolius goetzei Ahl, 1931
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-goetzei
Hyperolius semidiscus Hewitt, 1927
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-semidiscus
Hyperolius bicolor Ahl, 1931
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-bicolor
Hyperolius nitidulus Peters, 1875
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-nitidulus
Hyperolius viridiflavus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-viridiflavus
Hyperolius platyceps (Boulenger, 1900)
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-platyceps
Hyperolius argus Peters, 1854
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-argus