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 "Telmatobius bolivianus" returned 15 results

Telmatobius bolivianus Parker, 1940
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-bolivianus
Telmatobius contrerasi Cei, 1977
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-contrerasi
Telmatobius pinguiculus Lavilla and Laurent, 1989
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-pinguiculus
Telmatobius scrocchii Laurent and Lavilla, 1986
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-scrocchii
Telmatobius sibiricus De la Riva and Harvey, 2003
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-sibiricus
Telmatobius stephani Laurent, 1973
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-stephani
Telmatobius yuracare De la Riva, 1994
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-yuracare
Telmatobius ceiorum Laurent, 1970
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-ceiorum
Telmatobius hauthali Koslowsky, 1895
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-hauthali
Telmatobius simonsi Parker, 1940
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-simonsi
Telmatobius laticeps Laurent, 1977
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-laticeps
Telmatobius oxycephalus Vellard, 1946
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-oxycephalus
Telmatobius schreiteri Vellard, 1946
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-schreiteri
Telmatobius pisanoi Laurent, 1977
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-pisanoi
Telmatobius marmoratus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-marmoratus