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 "Leptobrachium hasseltii" returned 17 results

Leptobrachium hasseltii Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-hasseltii
Leptobrachium mangyanorum Brown, Siler, Diesmos, and Alcala, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-mangyanorum
Leptobrachium kanowitense Hamidy, Matsui, Nishikawa, and Belabut, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-kanowitense
Leptobrachium tagbanorum Brown, Siler, Diesmos, and Alcala, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-tagbanorum
Leptobrachium sylheticum Al-Razi, Maria, and Poyarkov, 2021
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-sylheticum
Leptobrachium lumadorum Brown, Siler, Diesmos, and Alcala, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-lumadorum
Leptobrachium ingeri Hamidy, Matsui, Nishikawa, and Belabut, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-ingeri
Leptobrachium rakhinense Wogan, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-rakhinense
Leptobrachium Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium
Leptobrachium pullus (Smith, 1921)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-pullus
Leptobrachium hainanense Ye and Fei, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-hainanense
Leptobrachium nigrops Berry and Hendrickson, 1963
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-nigrops
Leptobrachium hendricksoni Taylor, 1962
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-hendricksoni
Leptobrachium abbotti (Cochran, 1926)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-abbotti
Leptobrachium montanum Fischer, 1885
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-montanum
Leptobrachium liui (Pope, 1947)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-liui
Leptobrachium smithi Matsui, Nabhitabhata, and Panha, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachium/Leptobrachium-smithi