Amphibian Species of the World

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* = "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: "Niceforonia"

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea

Family: Craugastoridae

Subfamily: Ceuthomantinae

Genus: Pristimantis

Species: Pristimantis festae

Synonym: Niceforonia festae Lynch, 1968

Species: Pristimantis simonsii

Synonym: Niceforonia simonsii Lynch, 1968

Subfamily: Holoadeninae

Genus: Lynchius

Species: Lynchius flavomaculatus

Synonym: Niceforonia flavomaculata Lynch, 1969

Genus: Microkayla

Species: Microkayla wettsteini

                Synonym: Niceforonia laplacai Lynch, 1969
Synonym: Niceforonia wettsteini Lynch, 1969
            

Genus: Niceforonia

Synonym: Niceforonia Goin and Cochran, 1963

Species: Niceforonia adenobrachia

Synonym: Niceforonia adenobrachia Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008

Species: Niceforonia aderca

                Synonym: Niceforonia aderca Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia araiodactyla

                Synonym: Niceforonia araiodactyla Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia babax

                Synonym: Niceforonia babax Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia brunnea

                Synonym: Niceforonia brunnea Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia columbiana

Synonym: Niceforonia columbiana Lynch, 1968

Species: Niceforonia dolops

                Synonym: Niceforonia dolops Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia elassodiscus

                Synonym: Niceforonia elassodisca Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia fallaciosa

                Synonym: Niceforonia fallaciosa Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia latens

                Synonym: Niceforonia latens Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia lucida

                Synonym: Niceforonia lucida Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia mantipus

                Synonym: Niceforonia mantipa Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia nana

Synonym: Niceforonia nana Goin and Cochran, 1963

Species: Niceforonia nigrovittata

                Synonym: Niceforonia nigrovittata Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Species: Niceforonia peraccai

                Synonym: Niceforonia peraccai Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018
            

Genus: Phrynopus

Species: Phrynopus montium

Synonym: Niceforonia montia Lynch, 1968

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