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 "Proceratophrys cristiceps" returned 14 results

Proceratophrys cristiceps (Müller, 1883)
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-cristiceps
Proceratophrys strussmannae Ávila, Kawashita-Ribeiro, and Morais, 2011
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-strussmannae
Proceratophrys carranca Godinho, Moura, Lacerda, and Feio, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-carranca
Proceratophrys huntingtoni Ávila, Pansonato, and Strüssmann, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-huntingtoni
Proceratophrys ararype Mângia, Koroiva, Nunes, Roberto, Ávila, Sant’Anna, Santana, and Garda, 2018
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-ararype
Proceratophrys rotundipalpebra Martins and Giaretta, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-rotundipalpebra
Proceratophrys vielliardi Martins and Giaretta, 2011
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-vielliardi
Proceratophrys bagnoi Brandão, Caramaschi, Vaz-Silva, and Campos, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-bagnoi
Proceratophrys branti Brandão, Caramaschi, Vaz-Silva, and Campos, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-branti
Proceratophrys concavitympanum Giaretta, Bernarde, and Kokubum, 2000
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-concavitympanum
Proceratophrys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys
Proceratophrys goyana (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-goyana
Proceratophrys cururu Eterovick and Sazima, 1998
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-cururu
Proceratophrys dibernardoi Brandão, Caramaschi, Vaz-Silva, and Campos, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Odontophrynidae/Proceratophrys/Proceratophrys-dibernardoi