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 marmoratus" returned 17 results

Telmatobius marmoratus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-marmoratus
Telmatobius rubigo Barrionuevo and Baldo, 2009
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-rubigo
Telmatobius hintoni Parker, 1940
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-hintoni
Telmatobius huayra Lavilla and Ergueta-Sandoval, 1995
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-huayra
Telmatobius gigas Vellard, 1969
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-gigas
Telmatobius arequipensis Vellard, 1955
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-arequipensis
Telmatobius platycephalus Lavilla and Laurent, 1989
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-platycephalus
Telmatobius hypselocephalus Lavilla and Laurent, 1989
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-hypselocephalus
Telmatobius sanborni Schmidt, 1954
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-sanborni
Telmatobius jelskii (Peters, 1873)
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-jelskii
Telmatobius culeus (Garman, 1876)
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-culeus
Telmatobius bolivianus Parker, 1940
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-bolivianus
Telmatobius verrucosus Werner, 1899
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-verrucosus
Telmatobius atacamensis Gallardo, 1962
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-atacamensis
Telmatobius peruvianus Wiegmann, 1834
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-peruvianus
Telmatobius halli Noble, 1938
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius/Telmatobius-halli
Telmatobius Wiegmann, 1834
Amphibia/Anura/Telmatobiidae/Telmatobius