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 "Platymantis dorsalis" returned 14 results

Platymantis dorsalis (Duméril, 1853)
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-dorsalis
Platymantis diesmosi Brown and Gonzalez, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-diesmosi
Platymantis mimulus Brown, Alcala, and Diesmos, 1997
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-mimulus
Platymantis taylori Brown, Alcala, and Diesmos, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-taylori
Platymantis indeprensus Brown, Alcala, and Diesmos, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-indeprensus
Platymantis spelaeus Brown and Alcala, 1982
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-spelaeus
Platymantis naomii Alcala, Brown, and Diesmos, 1998
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-naomii
Platymantis cagayanensis Brown, Alcala, and Diesmos, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-cagayanensis
Platymantis pseudodorsalis Brown, Alcala, and Diesmos, 1999
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-pseudodorsalis
Platymantis paengi Siler, Linkem, Diesmos, and Alcala, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-paengi
Platymantis pygmaeus Alcala, Brown, and Diesmos, 1998
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-pygmaeus
Platymantis levigatus Brown and Alcala, 1974
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-levigatus
Platymantis corrugatus (Duméril, 1853)
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis/Platymantis-corrugatus
Platymantis Günther, 1858
Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae/Ceratobatrachinae/Platymantis