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 verrucosus" returned 18 results

Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-verrucosus
Tylototriton pulcherrimus Hou, Zhang, Li, and Lu, 2012
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-pulcherrimus
Tylototriton podichthys Phimmachak, Aowphol, and Stuart, 2015
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-podichthys
Tylototriton phukhaensis Pomchote, Khonsue, Thammachoti, Hernandez, Peerachidacho, Suwannapoom, Onishi, and Nishikawa, 2020
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-phukhaensis
Tylototriton joe Rao, Zeng, Zhu, and Ma, 2022 "2020"
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-joe
Tylototriton panwaensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Thura, Espinoza, and Murdoch, 2019
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-panwaensis
Tylototriton shanorum Nishikawa, Matsui, and Rao, 2014
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-shanorum
Tylototriton shanjing Nussbaum, Brodie, and Yang, 1995
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-shanjing
Tylototriton himalayanus Khatiwada, Wang, Ghimire, Vasudevan, Paudel, and Jiang, 2015
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-himalayanus
Tylototriton kachinorum Zaw, Lay, Pawangkhanant, Gorin, and Poyarkov, 2019
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-kachinorum
Tylototriton ngarsuensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Thura, Espinoza, Grismer, Murdoch, and Lin, 2018
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-ngarsuensis
Tylototriton yangi Hou, Zhang, Zhou, Li, and Lu, 2012
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-yangi
Tylototriton uyenoi Nishikawa, Khonsue, Pomchote, and Matsui, 2013
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-uyenoi
Tylototriton anguliceps Le, Nguyen, Nishikawa, Nguyen, Pham, Matsui, Bernardes, and Nguyen, 2015
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-anguliceps
Tylototriton kweichowensis Fang and Chang, 1932
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-kweichowensis
Tylototriton Anderson, 1871
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton
Tylototriton panhai Nishikawa, Khonsue, Pomchote, and Matsui, 2013
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-panhai
Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Tylototriton/Tylototriton-taliangensis