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 marina" returned 43 results

Rhinella marina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-marina
Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella
Rhinella veredas (Brandão, Maciel, and Sebben, 2007)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-veredas
Rhinella bella Menéndez-Guerrero, Santos, Salazar-Nicholls, Green, and Ron, 2024
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-bella
Rhinella horribilis (Wiegmann, 1833)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-horribilis
Rhinella achavali (Maneyro, Arrieta, and de Sá, 2004)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-achavali
Rhinella casconi Roberto, Brito, and Thomé, 2014
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-casconi
Rhinella nicefori (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-nicefori
Rhinella trifolium (Tschudi, 1845)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-trifolium
Rhinella altiperuviana (Gallardo, 1961)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-altiperuviana
Rhinella poeppigii (Tschudi, 1845)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-poeppigii
Rhinella cerradensis Maciel, Brandão, Campos, and Sebben, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-cerradensis
Rhinella diptycha (Cope, 1862)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-diptycha
Rhinella amabilis (Pramuk and Kadivar, 2003)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-amabilis
Rhinella rubescens (Lutz, 1925)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-rubescens
Rhinella papillosa (Philippi, 1902)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-papillosa
Rhinella icterica (Spix, 1824)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-icterica
Rhinella vellardi (Leviton and Duellman, 1978)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-vellardi
Rhinella arenarum (Hensel, 1867)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-arenarum
Rhinella limensis (Werner, 1901)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-limensis
Rhinella bernardoi Sanabria, Quiroga, Arias, and Cortez, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-bernardoi
Rhinella centralis Narvaes and Rodrigues, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-centralis
Rhinella inopina Vaz-Silva, Valdujo, and Pombal, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-inopina
Rhinella gallardoi (Carrizo, 1992)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-gallardoi
Rhinella achalensis (Cei, 1972)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-achalensis
Rhinella henseli (Lutz, 1934)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-henseli
Rhinella arunco (Molina, 1782)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-arunco
Rhinella nattereri (Bokermann, 1967)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-nattereri
Rhinella azarai (Gallardo, 1965)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-azarai
Rhinella mirandaribeiroi (Gallardo, 1965)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Rhinella/Rhinella-mirandaribeiroi

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