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 signifer" returned 21 results

Physalaemus signifer (Girard, 1853)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-signifer
Physalaemus camacan Pimenta, Cruz, and Silvano, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-camacan
Physalaemus spiniger (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-spiniger
Physalaemus araxa Leal, Zornosa-Torres, Augusto-Alves, Dena, Pezzuti, Leite, Lourenço, Garcia, and Toledo, 2021
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-araxa
Physalaemus irroratus Cruz, Nascimento, and Feio, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-irroratus
Physalaemus obtectus Bokermann, 1966
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-obtectus
Physalaemus maculiventris (Lutz, 1925)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-maculiventris
Physalaemus nanus (Boulenger, 1888)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-nanus
Physalaemus atlanticus Haddad and Sazima, 2004
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-atlanticus
Physalaemus claptoni Leal, Leite, Costa, Nascimento, Lourenço, and Garcia, 2020
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-claptoni
Physalaemus angrensis Weber, Gonzaga, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2006
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-angrensis
Physalaemus crombiei Heyer and Wolf, 1989
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-crombiei
Physalaemus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-moreirae
Physalaemus bokermanni Cardoso and Haddad, 1985
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-bokermanni
Physalaemus maximus Feio, Pombal, and Caramaschi, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-maximus
Physalaemus deimaticus Sazima and Caramaschi, 1988
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-deimaticus
Physalaemus erythros Caramaschi, Feio, and Guimarães, 2003
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-erythros
Physalaemus rupestris Caramaschi, Carcerelli, and Feio, 1991
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-rupestris
Physalaemus caete Pombal and Madureira, 1997
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-caete
Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus
Physalaemus nattereri (Steindachner, 1863)
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leiuperinae/Physalaemus/Physalaemus-nattereri