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 "Pseudoeurycea leprosa" returned 20 results

Pseudoeurycea leprosa (Cope, 1869)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-leprosa
Pseudoeurycea ruficauda Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2004
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-ruficauda
Pseudoeurycea obesa Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2005
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-obesa
Pseudoeurycea tlilicxitl Lara-Góngora, 2003
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-tlilicxitl
Pseudoeurycea lynchi Parra-Olea, Papenfuss, and Wake, 2001
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-lynchi
Pseudoeurycea tlahcuiloh Adler, 1996
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-tlahcuiloh
Pseudoeurycea anitae Bogert, 1967
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-anitae
Pseudoeurycea papenfussi Parra-Olea, García-París, Hanken, and Wake, 2005
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-papenfussi
Pseudoeurycea longicauda Lynch, Wake, and Yang, 1983
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-longicauda
Pseudoeurycea granitum García-Bañuelos, Aguilar-López, Kelly-Hernandez, Vásquez-Cruz, Pineda-Arredondo, and Rovito, 2020
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-granitum
Pseudoeurycea mixteca Canseco-Márquez and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2005
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-mixteca
Pseudoeurycea mystax Bogert, 1967
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-mystax
Pseudoeurycea juarezi Regal, 1966
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-juarezi
Pseudoeurycea altamontana (Taylor, 1939)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-altamontana
Pseudoeurycea nigromaculata (Taylor, 1941)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-nigromaculata
Pseudoeurycea robertsi (Taylor, 1939)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-robertsi
Pseudoeurycea firscheini Shannon and Werler, 1955
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-firscheini
Pseudoeurycea Taylor, 1944
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea
Chiropterotriton totonacus Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken, and Wake, 2020
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Chiropterotriton/Chiropterotriton-totonacus
Pseudoeurycea lineola (Cope, 1865)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Hemidactyliinae/Pseudoeurycea/Pseudoeurycea-lineola