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: Ranitomeya ignea

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Bombinatoridae Gray, 1825

Genus: Bombina Oken, 1816

Species: Bombina bombina

                Synonym: Rana ignea Shaw, 1802
Synonym: Bombina ignea Sturm, 1828
            

Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea Cope, 1865

Family: Dendrobatidae Cope, 1865 (1850)

Subfamily: Dendrobatinae Cope, 1865 (1850)

Genus: Adelphobates Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006

Species: Adelphobates quinquevittatus

                Synonym: Ranitomeya quinquevittata Bauer, 1988
Synonym: Ranitomeya quinquevittata Anonymous, 1985
            

Genus: Andinobates Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas, 2011

Species: Andinobates abditus

                Synonym: Ranitomeya abdita Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates altobueyensis

                Synonym: Ranitomeya altobueyensis Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates bombetes

                Synonym: Ranitomeya bombetes Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates claudiae

                Synonym: Ranitomeya claudiae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates daleswansoni

Synonym: Ranitomeya daleswansoni Frost, 2007

Species: Andinobates dorisswansonae

Synonym: Ranitomeya dorisswansoni Frost, 2007

Species: Andinobates fulguritus

                Synonym: Ranitomeya fulgurita Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates minutus

                Synonym: Ranitomeya minuta Anonymous, 1985
Synonym: Ranitomeya minuta Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates opisthomelas

                Synonym: Ranitomeya opisthomelas Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Synonym: Ranitomeya opisthomelas Anonymous, 1985
            

Species: Andinobates tolimensis

                Synonym: Ranitomeya tolimense Bernal-Bautista, Luna-Mora, Gallego, and Quevedo-Gil, 2007
Synonym: Ranitomeya tolimensis Frost, 2008
            

Species: Andinobates viridis

                Synonym: Ranitomeya viridis Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Andinobates virolinensis

                Synonym: Ranitomeya virolinensis Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Genus: Excidobates Twomey and Brown, 2008

Species: Excidobates captivus

Synonym: Ranitomeya captiva Bauer, 1988

Species: Excidobates mysteriosus

Synonym: Ranitomeya mysteriosa Bauer, 1988

Genus: Oophaga Bauer, 1994

Species: Oophaga granulifera

Synonym: Ranitomeya granuliferus Anonymous, 1985

Genus: Ranitomeya

                Synonym: Ranitomeya Bauer, 1986
Synonym: Ranitomeya Anonymous, 1985
Synonym: Ranitomeya Bauer, 1988
            

Species: Ranitomeya amazonica

                Synonym: Ranitomeya amazonica Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Ranitomeya benedicta

                Synonym: Ranitomeya benedicta Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008
            

Species: Ranitomeya cyanovittata

Synonym: Ranitomeya cyanovittata Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010

Species: Ranitomeya defleri

Synonym: Ranitomeya defleri Twomey and Brown, 2009

Species: Ranitomeya fantastica

                Synonym: Ranitomeya fantasticus Anonymous, 1985
Synonym: Ranitomeya fantastica Bauer, 1988
            

Species: Ranitomeya flavovittata

                Synonym: Ranitomeya flavovittata Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Ranitomeya imitator

                Synonym: Ranitomeya imitator Bauer, 1988
Synonym: Ranitomeya imitator Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Synonym: Ranitomeya intermedia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Ranitomeya reticulata

                Synonym: Ranitomeya ignea Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Synonym: Ranitomeya reticulata Bauer, 1986
            

Species: Ranitomeya sirensis

                Synonym: Ranitomeya lamasi Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Synonym: Ranitomeya biolat Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Synonym: Ranitomeya sirensis Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Ranitomeya summersi

Synonym: Ranitomeya summersi Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008

Species: Ranitomeya toraro

                Synonym: Ranitomeya toraro Brown, Caldwell, Twomey, Melo-Sampaio, and Souza in Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011
            

Species: Ranitomeya uakarii

Synonym: Ranitomeya uakarii Frost, 2007

Species: Ranitomeya vanzolinii

Synonym: Ranitomeya vanzolinii Bauer, 1988

Species: Ranitomeya variabilis

                Synonym: Ranitomeya variabilis Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Ranitomeya ventrimaculata

                Synonym: Ranitomeya ventrimaculata Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Synonym: Ranitomeya duellmani Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
            

Species: Ranitomeya yavaricola

Synonym: Ranitomeya yavaricola Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010

Order: Caudata

Family: Plethodontidae Gray, 1850

Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae Hallowell, 1856

Genus: Oedipina Keferstein, 1868

Species: Oedipina ignea

                Synonym: Oedipina ignea Stuart, 1952
Synonym: Oedipina (Oedipina) ignea García-París and Wake, 2000
            

Family: Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820

Subfamily: Pleurodelinae Tschudi, 1838

Genus: Ichthyosaura Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1802

Species: Ichthyosaura alpestris

                Synonym: Molge ignea Merrem, 1820
Synonym: Salamandra ignea Bechstein, 1800
            