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 "Plethodon cinereus" returned 14 results

Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-cinereus
Plethodon serratus Grobman, 1944
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-serratus
Plethodon hubrichti Thurow, 1957
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-hubrichti
Plethodon electromorphus Highton, 1999
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-electromorphus
Plethodon dorsalis Cope, 1889
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-dorsalis
Plethodon sherando Highton, 2004
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-sherando
Plethodon angusticlavius Grobman, 1944
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-angusticlavius
Plethodon shenandoah Highton and Worthington, 1967
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-shenandoah
Plethodon virginia Highton, 1999
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-virginia
Plethodon hoffmani Highton, 1972
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-hoffmani
Plethodon richmondi Netting and Mittleman, 1938
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-richmondi
Plethodon nettingi Green, 1938
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-nettingi
Plethodon sequoyah Highton, 1989
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-sequoyah
Plethodon Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon