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 "Xenophrys major" returned 16 results

Xenophrys major (Boulenger, 1908)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-major
Xenophrys truongsonensis Luong, Hoang, Pham, Nguyen, Orlov, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2022
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-truongsonensis
Xenophrys lancangica Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2023
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-lancangica
Xenophrys oreocrypta (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-oreocrypta
Xenophrys periosa (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-periosa
Xenophrys auralensis (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-auralensis
Xenophrys maosonensis (Bourret, 1937)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-maosonensis
Xenophrys himalayana (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-himalayana
Xenophrys flavipunctata (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-flavipunctata
Xenophrys Günther, 1864
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys
Xenophrys zhangi (Ye and Fei, 1992)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-zhangi
Xenophrys monticola Günther, 1864
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-monticola
Xenophrys glandulosa (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-glandulosa
Xenophrys robusta (Boulenger, 1908)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-robusta
Xenophrys medogensis (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-medogensis
Xenophrys mangshanensis (Fei and Ye, 1990)
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Megophryinae/Xenophrys/Xenophrys-mangshanensis