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: Oreophrynella quelchii

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Bufonidae Gray, 1825

Genus: Oreophrynella

Synonym: Oreophrynella Boulenger, 1895

Species: Oreophrynella cryptica

Synonym: Oreophrynella cryptica Señaris, 1995

Species: Oreophrynella huberi

Synonym: Oreophrynella huberi Diego-Aransay and Gorzula, 1990

Species: Oreophrynella macconnelli

                Synonym: Oreophrynella quelchii macconnelli Rivero, 1961
Synonym: Oreophrynella dendronastes Lathrop and MacCulloch, 2007
Synonym: Oreophrynella macconnelli McDiarmid, 1971
Synonym: Oreophrynella macconnelli Boulenger, 1900
            

Species: Oreophrynella nigra

Synonym: Oreophrynella nigra Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1994

Species: Oreophrynella quelchii

                Synonym: Oreophrynella quelchii quelchii Rivero, 1961
Synonym: Oreophrynella quelchii Boulenger, 1895
Synonym: Oreophryne Quelchii Boulenger, 1895
            

Species: Oreophrynella seegobini

Synonym: Oreophrynella seegobini Kok, 2009

Species: Oreophrynella vasquezi

Synonym: Oreophrynella vasquezi Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1994

Species: Oreophrynella weiassipuensis

                Synonym: Oreophrynella weiassipuensis Señaris, DoNascimiento, and Villarreal, 2005
            