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 Taxon: "Engystomops"

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Leptodactylidae

Subfamily: Leiuperinae

Genus: Engystomops

Synonym: Engystomops Jiménez de la Espada, 1872

Species: Engystomops coloradorum

Synonym: Engystomops coloradorum Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005

Species: Engystomops freibergi

Synonym: Engystomops freibergi Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005

Species: Engystomops guayaco

Synonym: Engystomops guayaco Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005

Species: Engystomops montubio

Synonym: Engystomops montubio Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005

Species: Engystomops petersi

                Synonym: Engystomops Petersi Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
Synonym: Engystomops petersii Boulenger, 1882
Synonym: Engystomops petersi Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005
            

Species: Engystomops pustulatus

                Synonym: Engystomops pustulata Peters, 1955
Synonym: Engystomops pustulatus Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005
            

Species: Engystomops pustulosus

                Synonym: Engystomops pustulosus Boulenger, 1882
Synonym: Engystomops stentor Boulenger, 1882
            

Species: Engystomops puyango

Synonym: Engystomops puyango Ron, Toral, Rivera, and Terán-Valdez, 2010

Species: Engystomops randi

Synonym: Engystomops randi Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005

Genus: Physalaemus

Species: Physalaemus moreirae

Synonym: Engystomops moreirae Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937

Species: Physalaemus spiniger

Synonym: Engystomops spinigera Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926

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