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 "Ischnocnema lactea" returned 19 results

Ischnocnema lactea (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-lactea
Ischnocnema bocaina Taucce, Zaidan, Zaher, and Garcia, 2019
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-bocaina
Ischnocnema karst Canedo, Targino, Leite, and Haddad, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-karst
Ischnocnema melanopygia Targino, Costa, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-melanopygia
Ischnocnema paranaensis (Langone and Segalla, 1996)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-paranaensis
Ischnocnema vizottoi Martins and Haddad, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-vizottoi
Ischnocnema gehrti (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-gehrti
Ischnocnema concolor Targino, Costa, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-concolor
Ischnocnema holti (Cochran, 1948)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-holti
Ischnocnema spanios (Heyer, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-spanios
Ischnocnema sambaqui (Castanho and Haddad, 2000)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-sambaqui
Ischnocnema randorum (Heyer, 1985)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-randorum
Ischnocnema abdita Canedo and Pimenta, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-abdita
Ischnocnema venancioi (Lutz, 1958)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-venancioi
Ischnocnema bolbodactyla (Lutz, 1925)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-bolbodactyla
Ischnocnema nigriventris (Lutz, 1925)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-nigriventris
Ischnocnema Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema
Ischnocnema manezinho (Garcia, 1996)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Brachycephalidae/Ischnocnema/Ischnocnema-manezinho
Bahius bilineatus (Bokermann, 1975)
Amphibia/Anura/Brachycephaloidea/Strabomantidae/Holoadeninae/Bahius/Bahius-bilineatus