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 "Microhyla achatina" returned 23 results

Microhyla achatina Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-achatina
Microhyla neglecta Poyarkov, Nguyen, Trofimets, and Gorin, 2020
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-neglecta
Microhyla sriwijaya Eprilurahman, Hamidy, Smith, Garg, and Biju, 2021
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-sriwijaya
Microhyla kodial Vineeth, Radhakrishna, Godwin, Anwesha, Rajashekhar, and Aravind, 2018
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-kodial
Microhyla gadjahmadai Atmaja, Hamidy, Arisuryanti, Matsui, and Smith, 2018
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-gadjahmadai
Microhyla orientalis Matsui, Hamidy, and Eto, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-orientalis
Oreophryne Boettger, 1895
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Asterophryinae/Oreophryne
Microhyla minuta Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Orlov, Galoyan, Tran, Le, Kretova, and Geissler, 2014
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-minuta
Microhyla darevskii Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Orlov, Galoyan, Tran, Le, Kretova, and Geissler, 2014
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-darevskii
Microhyla nepenthicola Das and Haas, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-nepenthicola
Microhyla irrawaddy Poyarkov, Gorin, Zaw, Kretova, Gogoleva, Pawangkhanant, and Che, 2019
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-irrawaddy
Microhyla fodiens Poyarkov, Gorin, Zaw, Kretova, Gogoleva, Pawangkhanant, and Che, 2019
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-fodiens
Microhyla borneensis Parker, 1928
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-borneensis
Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-chakrapanii
Microhyla pineticola Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Orlov, Galoyan, Tran, Le, Kretova, and Geissler, 2014
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-pineticola
Oreophryne moluccensis (Peters and Doria, 1878)
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Asterophryinae/Oreophryne/Oreophryne-moluccensis
Microhyla malang Matsui, 2011
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-malang
Microhyla mantheyi Das, Yaakob, and Sukumaran, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-mantheyi
Microhyla Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla
Microhyla superciliaris Parker, 1928
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-superciliaris
Microhyla palmipes Boulenger, 1897
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-palmipes
Microhyla heymonsi Vogt, 1911
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-heymonsi
Microhyla berdmorei (Blyth, 1856)
Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-berdmorei