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: Scaphiophryne menabensis

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Microhylidae

Subfamily: Scaphiophryninae

Genus: Scaphiophryne

Synonym: Scaphiophryne Boulenger, 1882

Species: Scaphiophryne boribory

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Scaphiophryne) boribory Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
Synonym: Scaphiophryne boribory Vences, Raxworthy, Nussbaum, and Glaw, 2003
            

Species: Scaphiophryne brevis

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne brevis Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991
Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Pseudohemisus) brevis Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
            

Species: Scaphiophryne calcarata

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne calcarata Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991
Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Pseudohemisus) calcarata Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
            

Species: Scaphiophryne gottlebei

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Scaphiophryne) gottlebei Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
Synonym: Scaphiophryne gottlebei Busse and Böhme, 1992
            

Species: Scaphiophryne madagascariensis

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Scaphiophryne) madagascariensis Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
Synonym: Scaphiophryne madagascariensis Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991
Synonym: Scaphiophryne pustulosa Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991
            

Species: Scaphiophryne marmorata

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Scaphiophryne) marmorata Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
Synonym: Scaphiophryne marmorata Boulenger, 1882
            

Species: Scaphiophryne matsoko

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne matsoko Raselimanana, Raxworthy, Andreone, Glaw, and Vences, 2014
            

Species: Scaphiophryne menabensis

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Scaphiophryne) menabensis Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
Synonym: Scaphiophryne menabensis Glos, Glaw, and Vences, 2005
            

Species: Scaphiophryne spinosa

                Synonym: Scaphiophryne (Scaphiophryne) spinosa Grosjean, Glos, Teschke, Glaw, and Vences, 2007
Synonym: Scaphiophryne spinosa Steindachner, 1882
            

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