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 "Tylototriton asperrimus" returned 18 results

Tylototriton asperrimus Unterstein, 1930
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-asperrimus
Tylototriton sini Lyu, Wang, Zeng, Zhou, Qi, Wan, and Wang, 2021
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-sini
Tylototriton maolanensis Li, Wei, Cheng, Zhang, and Wang, 2020
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-maolanensis
Tylototriton sparreboomi Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2020
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-sparreboomi
Tylototriton wenxianensis Fei, Ye, and Yang, 1984
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-wenxianensis
Tylototriton dabienicus Chen, Wang, and Tao, 2010
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-dabienicus
Tylototriton pasmansi Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2020
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-pasmansi
Tylototriton ziegleri Nishikawa, Matsui, and Nguyen, 2013
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-ziegleri
Tylototriton hainanensis Fei, Ye, and Yang, 1984
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-hainanensis
Tylototriton liuyangensis Yang, Jiang, Shen, and Fei, 2014
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-liuyangensis
Tylototriton anhuiensis Qian, Sun, Li, Guo, Pan, Kang, Wang, Jiang, Wu, and Zhang, 2017
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-anhuiensis
Tylototriton Anderson, 1871
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton
Tylototriton vietnamensis Böhme, Schöttler, Nguyen, and Köhler, 2005
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-vietnamensis
Tylototriton notialis Stuart, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, and Robichaud, 2010
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-notialis
Tylototriton broadoridgus Shen, Jiang, and Mo, 2012
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-broadoridgus
Tylototriton lizhenchangi Hou, Zhang, Jiang, Li and Lu, 2012
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-lizhenchangi
Echinotriton Nussbaum and Brodie, 1982
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Echinotriton
Tylototriton panhai Nishikawa, Khonsue, Pomchote, and Matsui, 2013
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-panhai