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 "Rhacophorus schlegelii" returned 19 results

Zhangixalus owstoni (Stejneger, 1907)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-owstoni
Zhangixalus schlegelii (Günther, 1858)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-schlegelii
Zhangixalus arboreus (Okada and Kawano, 1924)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-arboreus
Rhacophorus poecilonotus Boulenger, 1920
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus/Rhacophorus-poecilonotus
Zhangixalus viridis (Hallowell, 1861)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-viridis
Zhangixalus moltrechti (Boulenger, 1908)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-moltrechti
Zhangixalus dorsoviridis (Bourret, 1937)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-dorsoviridis
Zhangixalus amamiensis (Inger, 1947)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-amamiensis
Rhacophorus margaritifer (Schlegel, 1837)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus/Rhacophorus-margaritifer
Zhangixalus taipeianus (Liang and Wang, 1978)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-taipeianus
Rhacophorus tuberculatus (Anderson, 1871)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus/Rhacophorus-tuberculatus
Rhacophorus calcaneus Smith, 1924
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus/Rhacophorus-calcaneus
Rhacophorus monticola Boulenger, 1896
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus/Rhacophorus-monticola
Zhangixalus omeimontis (Stejneger, 1924)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-omeimontis
Zhangixalus prasinatus (Mou, Risch, and Lue, 1983)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-prasinatus
Zhangixalus dugritei (David, 1872)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-dugritei
Zhangixalus nigropunctatus (Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-nigropunctatus
Zhangixalus dennysi (Blanford, 1881)
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-dennysi
Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822
Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus