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 "Rhinella festae" returned 22 results

Rhinella festae (Peracca, 1904)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-festae
Rhinella moralesi Lehr, Cusi, Rodríguez, Venegas, García Ayachi, and Catenazzi, 2021
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-moralesi
Rhinella kumanday Caicedo-Martínez, Henao-Osorio, Arias-Monsalve, Rojas-Morales, Ossa-López, Rivera-Páez, and Ramírez-Chaves, 2024
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-kumanday
Rhinella chullachaki Castillo-Urbina, Glaw, Aguilar-Puntriano, Vences, and Köhler, 2021
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-chullachaki
Rhinella lilyrodriguezae Cusi, Moravec, Lehr, and Gvoždík, 2017
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-lilyrodriguezae
Rhinella manu Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-manu
Rhinella yanachaga Lehr, Pramuk, Hedges, and Córdova, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-yanachaga
Rhinella macrorhina (Trueb, 1971)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-macrorhina
Rhinella chavin (Lehr, Köhler, Aguilar, and Ponce, 2001)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-chavin
Rhinella rostrata (Noble, 1920)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-rostrata
Rhinella multiverrucosa (Lehr, Pramuk, and Lundberg, 2005)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-multiverrucosa
Rhinella lindae (Rivero and Castaño, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-lindae
Rhinella arborescandens (Duellman and Schulte, 1992)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-arborescandens
Rhinella ruizi (Grant, 2000)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-ruizi
Rhinella nicefori (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-nicefori
Rhinella tenrec (Lynch and Renjifo, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-tenrec
Rhinella paraguas Grant and Bolívar-Garcías, 2014
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-paraguas
Rhinella truebae (Lynch and Renjifo, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-truebae
Rhinella tacana (Padial, Reichle, McDiarmid, and De la Riva, 2006)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-tacana
Rhinella nesiotes (Duellman and Toft, 1979)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-nesiotes
Rhinella acrolopha (Trueb, 1971)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-acrolopha
Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella