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 "Physalaemus cuvieri" returned 28 results

Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-cuvieri
Physalaemus erikae Cruz and Pimenta, 2004
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-erikae
Physalaemus kroyeri (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-kroyeri
Physalaemus cristinae Cardozo, Tomatis, Duport-Bru, Kolenc, Borteiro, Pansonato, Confalonieri, Lourenço, Haddad, and Baldo, 2023
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-cristinae
Physalaemus lisei Braun and Braun, 1977
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-lisei
Physalaemus cicada Bokermann, 1966
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-cicada
Physalaemus barrioi Bokermann, 1967
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-barrioi
Physalaemus ephippifer (Steindachner, 1864)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-ephippifer
Physalaemus albonotatus (Steindachner, 1864)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-albonotatus
Physalaemus fischeri (Boulenger, 1890)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-fischeri
Physalaemus jordanensis Bokermann, 1967
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-jordanensis
Physalaemus centralis Bokermann, 1962
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-centralis
Physalaemus aguirrei Bokermann, 1966
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-aguirrei
Physalaemus lateristriga (Steindachner, 1864)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-lateristriga
Physalaemus feioi Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-feioi
Physalaemus albifrons (Spix, 1824)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-albifrons
Physalaemus maximus Feio, Pombal, and Caramaschi, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-maximus
Physalaemus soaresi Izecksohn, 1965
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-soaresi
Physalaemus santafecinus Barrio, 1965
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-santafecinus
Physalaemus gracilis (Boulenger, 1883)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-gracilis
Physalaemus evangelistai Bokermann, 1967
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-evangelistai
Physalaemus olfersii (Lichtenstein and Martens, 1856)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-olfersii
Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus
Physalaemus fernandezae (Müller, 1926)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-fernandezae
Physalaemus henselii (Peters, 1872)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-henselii
Physalaemus riograndensis Milstead, 1960
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-riograndensis
Physalaemus biligonigerus (Cope, 1861)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-biligonigerus
Physalaemus marmoratus (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-marmoratus