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: "Hyla arborea"

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Hylidae

Subfamily: Hylinae

Genus: Dryophytes

Species: Dryophytes immaculatus

                Synonym: Hyla arborea var. immaculata Boettger, 1892
Synonym: Hyla arborea immaculata Nikolskii, 1918
            

Species: Dryophytes japonicus

                Synonym: Hyla arborea var. japonica Günther, 1859
Synonym: Hyla arborea var. japonica Boettger, 1885
Synonym: Hyla arborea japonica Nikolskii, 1918
Synonym: Hyla arborea ussuriensis Nikolskii, 1918
Synonym: Hyla arborea stepheni Okada, 1928
            

Genus: Hyla

Species: Hyla arborea

                Synonym: Hyla arborea Cuvier, 1817
Synonym: Hyla arborea arborea Boulenger, 1882
Synonym: Hyla arborea kretensis Ahl, 1931
Synonym: Hyla arborea cretensis Stugren and Lydataki, 1986
Synonym: Hyla (Hyla) arborea Fouquette and Dubois, 2014
            

Species: Hyla chinensis

                Synonym: Hyla arborea var. chinensis Günther, 1858
Synonym: Hyla arborea var. chinensis Boettger, 1885
Synonym: Hyla arborea var. sinensis Gee, 1919
            

Species: Hyla intermedia

Synonym: Hyla arborea var. intermedia Boulenger, 1882

Species: Hyla meridionalis

                Synonym: Hyla arborea var. meridionalis Boettger, 1874
Synonym: Hyla arborea var. meridionalis Schreiber, 1912
            

Species: Hyla molleri

Synonym: Hyla arborea var. molleri Bedriaga, 1889

Species: Hyla orientalis

                Synonym: Hyla arborea var. orientalis Bedriaga, 1890
Synonym: Hyla arborea schelkownikowi Chernov, 1926
Synonym: Hyla arborea gumilevskii Litvinchuk, Borkin, Rosanov, and Skorinov, 2006
            

Species: Hyla sarda

                Synonym: Hyla arborea savignyi var. fuscomaculata Camerano, 1884
Synonym: Hyla arborea sarda Pavlov, 1933
            

Species: Hyla savignyi

                Synonym: Hyla arborea var. savignyi Boulenger, 1882
Synonym: Hyla arborea savignyi Nikolskii, 1913
            

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