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 "Leptodactylus pentadactylus" returned 21 results

Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Laurenti, 1768)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-pentadactylus
Leptodactylus savagei Heyer, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-savagei
Leptodactylus rhodomerus Heyer, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-rhodomerus
Leptodactylus peritoaktites Heyer, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-peritoaktites
Leptodactylus turimiquensis Heyer, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-turimiquensis
Leptodactylus paraensis Heyer, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-paraensis
Leptodactylus flavopictus Lutz, 1926
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-flavopictus
Leptodactylus fallax Müller, 1926
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-fallax
Leptodactylus myersi Heyer, 1995
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-myersi
Leptodactylus labyrinthicus (Spix, 1824)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-labyrinthicus
Leptodactylus rhodonotus (Günther, 1869)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-rhodonotus
Leptodactylus rugosus Noble, 1923
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-rugosus
Leptodactylus lithonaetes Heyer, 1995
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-lithonaetes
Leptodactylus stenodema Jiménez de la Espada, 1875
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-stenodema
Leptodactylus vastus Lutz, 1930
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-vastus
Leptodactylus rhodomystax Boulenger, 1884
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-rhodomystax
Leptodactylus knudseni Heyer, 1972
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-knudseni
Leptodactylus silvanimbus McCranie, Wilson, and Porras, 1980
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-silvanimbus
Leptodactylus laticeps Boulenger, 1918
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-laticeps
Leptodactylus syphax Bokermann, 1969
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-syphax
Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus