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: Kaloula picta

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Alytidae Fitzinger, 1843

Genus: Discoglossus Otth, 1837

Species: Discoglossus pictus

                Synonym: Discoglossus pictus var. picta Günther, 1859
Synonym: Rana picta Schlegel, 1841
Synonym: Pseudis picta Bonaparte, 1840
            

Family: Bufonidae Gray, 1825

Genus: Bufotes Rafinesque, 1815

Species: Bufotes viridis

Synonym: Rana picta Pallas, 1814

Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea Cope, 1865

Family: Dendrobatidae Cope, 1865 (1850)

Subfamily: Colostethinae Cope, 1867

Genus: Ameerega Bauer, 1986

Species: Ameerega picta

                Synonym: Hylaplesia picta Tschudi, 1838
Synonym: Ameerega picta Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Family: Dicroglossidae Anderson, 1871

Subfamily: Dicroglossinae Anderson, 1871

Genus: Hoplobatrachus Peters, 1863

Species: Hoplobatrachus tigerinus

Synonym: Rana picta Gravenhorst, 1829

Family: Hylidae Rafinesque, 1815

Subfamily: Hylinae Rafinesque, 1815

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

Species: Tlalocohyla picta

                Synonym: Tlalocohyla picta Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
Synonym: Hylella picta Günther, 1901
Synonym: Hyla picta Nieden, 1923
            

Family: Megophryidae Bonaparte, 1850

Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae Dubois, 1980

Genus: Leptobrachella Smith, 1925

Species: Leptobrachella picta

                Synonym: Leptobrachella picta  Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018
            

Family: Microhylidae Günther, 1858 (1843)

Subfamily: Asterophryinae Günther, 1858

Genus: Cophixalus Boettger, 1892

Species: Cophixalus pictus

Synonym: picta Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021

Subfamily: Dyscophinae Boulenger, 1882

Genus: Dyscophus Grandidier, 1872

Species: Dyscophus guineti

Synonym: Kaloula guineti Grandidier, 1875

Subfamily: Microhylinae Günther, 1858 (1843)

Genus: Kaloula

Synonym: Kaloula Gray, 1831

Species: Kaloula assamensis

Synonym: Kaloula assamensis Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005

Species: Kaloula aureata

Synonym: Kaloula aureata Nutphand, 1989

Species: Kaloula baleata

                Synonym: Kaloula baleata baleata Inger, 1954
Synonym: Kaloula baleata Barbour, 1909
Synonym: Kaloula baleata Günther, 1859
            

Species: Kaloula borealis

                Synonym: Kaloula manchuriensis Boring and Liu, 1932
Synonym: Kaloula wolterstorffi Stejneger, 1925
Synonym: Kaloula wolterstorffi Shaw, 1929
Synonym: Kaloula tornieri Gee and Boring, 1929
Synonym: Kaloula borealis Noble, 1925
            

Species: Kaloula conjuncta

                Synonym: Kaloula conjucta stickeli Inger, 1954
Synonym: Kaloula negrosensis Taylor, 1922
Synonym: Kaloula conjucta Taylor, 1920
            

Species: Kaloula ghoshi

                Synonym: Kaloula baleata ghoshi Cherchi, 1954
Synonym: Kaloula ghoshi Chandramouli and Prasad, 2018
            

Species: Kaloula indochinensis

                Synonym: Kaloula indochinensis Chan, Blackburn, Murphy, Stuart, Emmett, Ho, and Brown, 2013
            

Species: Kaloula kalingensis

                Synonym: Kaloula kalingensis Taylor, 1922
Synonym: Kaloula baleata kalingensis Inger, 1954
Synonym: Kaloula kalingensis Ross and Gonzales, 1992
            

Species: Kaloula kokacii

Synonym: Kaloula kokacii Ross and Gonzales, 1992

Species: Kaloula latidisca

Synonym: Kaloula latidisca Chan, Grismer, and Brown, 2014

Species: Kaloula mediolineata

Synonym: Kaloula mediolineata Parker, 1934

Species: Kaloula meridionalis

                Synonym: Kaloula meridionalis Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016
Synonym: Kaloula conjuncta meridionalis Inger, 1954
            

Species: Kaloula nonggangensis

                Synonym: Kaloula nonggangensis Mo, Zhang, Zhou, Chen, Tang, Meng, and Chen, 2013
            

Species: Kaloula picta

                Synonym: Kaloula picta Günther, 1859
Synonym: Callula picta Günther, 1864
            

Species: Kaloula pulchra

                Synonym: Kaloula pulchra hainana Gressitt, 1938
Synonym: Kaloula pulchra pulchra Parker, 1934
Synonym: Kaloula pulchra Barbour, 1909
Synonym: Kaloula pulchra macrocephala Bourret, 1942
Synonym: Kaloula macrocephala Ohler, 2003
Synonym: Kaloula pulchra Gray, 1831
            

Species: Kaloula rigida

Synonym: Kaloula rigida Taylor, 1922

Species: Kaloula rugifera

Synonym: Kaloula rugifera Stejneger, 1924

Species: Kaloula verrucosa

                Synonym: Kaloula macroptica Liu, 1945
Synonym: Kaloula verrucosa Barbour, 1909
            

Species: Kaloula walteri

Synonym: Kaloula walteri Diesmos, Brown, and Alcala, 2002

Genus: Metaphrynella Parker, 1934

Species: Metaphrynella sundana

Synonym: Kaloula (?) sundana Van Kampen, 1923

Genus: Microhyla Tschudi, 1838

Species: Microhyla picta

                Synonym: Microhyla picta Schenkel, 1901
Synonym: Microhyla (Diplopelma) picta Dubois, 1987
            

Genus: Phrynella Boulenger, 1887

Species: Phrynella pulchra

Synonym: Kaloula boulengeri Smith, 1926

Genus: Uperodon Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Species: Uperodon taprobanicus

                Synonym: Kaloula taprobanica Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996
Synonym: Kaloula pulchra taprobanica Parker, 1934
            

Species: Uperodon triangularis

Synonym: Kaloula triangularis Rao, 1918

Species: Uperodon variegatus

Synonym: Kaloula variegata Rao, 1918

Family: Rhacophoridae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)

Subfamily: Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)

Genus: Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882

Species: Nyctixalus pictus

                Synonym: Edwardtayloria picta Dring, 1982
Synonym: Hazelia picta Taylor, 1962
            

Family: Rhinodermatidae Bonaparte, 1850

Genus: Rhinoderma Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Species: Rhinoderma darwinii

Synonym: Rhinoderma darwinii var. picta Werner, 1898

Order: Caudata

Family: Plethodontidae Gray, 1850

Subfamily: Plethodontinae Gray, 1850

Genus: Desmognathus Baird, 1850

Species: Desmognathus fuscus

Synonym: Salamandra picta Harlan, 1825

Genus: Ensatina Gray, 1850

Species: Ensatina eschscholtzii

Synonym: Ensatina eschscholtzi picta Wood, 1940