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 "Scinax granulatus" returned 16 results

Scinax granulatus (Peters, 1871)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-granulatus
Scinax rossaferesae Conte, Araujo-Vieira, Crivellari, and Berneck, 2016
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-rossaferesae
Scinax cabralensis Drummond, Baêta, and Pires, 2007
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-cabralensis
Scinax montivagus Juncá, Napoli, Nunes, Mercȇs, and Abreu, 2015
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-montivagus
Scinax haddadorum Araujo-Vieira, Valdujo, and Faivovich, 2016
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-haddadorum
Scinax tropicalia Novaes-e-Fagundes, Araujo-Vieira, Entiauspe, Roberto, Orrico, Solé, Haddad, and Loebmann, 2021
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-tropicalia
Scinax dolloi (Werner, 1903)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-dolloi
Scinax tigrinus Nunes, Carvalho, and Pereira, 2010
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-tigrinus
Scinax rogerioi Pugliese, Baêta, and Pombal, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-rogerioi
Scinax rupestris Araujo-Vieira, Brandão, and Faria, 2015
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-rupestris
Scinax caldarum (Lutz, 1968)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-caldarum
Scinax perereca Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-perereca
Scinax curicica Pugliese, Pombal, and Sazima, 2004
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-curicica
Scinax duartei (Lutz, 1951)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-duartei
Scinax maracaya (Cardoso and Sazima, 1980)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-maracaya
Scinax hayii (Barbour, 1909)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax/Scinax-hayii