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: Exerodonta perkinsi

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Hylidae Rafinesque, 1815

Subfamily: Hylinae Rafinesque, 1815

Genus: Charadrahyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005

Species: Charadrahyla juanitae

                Synonym: Exerodonta juanitae Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Charadrahyla pinorum

                Synonym: Exerodonta pinorum Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Genus: Exerodonta

Synonym: Exerodonta Brocchi, 1879

Species: Exerodonta abdivita

                Synonym: Exerodonta abdivita Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Exerodonta bivocata

                Synonym: Exerodonta bivocata Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Exerodonta catracha

                Synonym: Exerodonta catracha Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Exerodonta chimalapa

                Synonym: Exerodonta chimalapa Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Exerodonta melanomma

                Synonym: Exerodonta melanomma Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
Synonym: Exerodonta melanoma Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008
            

Species: Exerodonta perkinsi

                Synonym: Exerodonta perkinsi Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
Synonym: Hyla perkinsi Campbell and Brodie, 1992
            

Species: Exerodonta smaragdina

                Synonym: Exerodonta smaragdina Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Exerodonta sumichrasti

                Synonym: Exerodonta Sumichrasti Brocchi, 1879
Synonym: Exerodonta sumichrasti Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            

Species: Exerodonta xera

                Synonym: Exerodonta xera Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
            