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 "Cynops" returned 20 results

Cynops Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops
Cynops pyrrhogaster (Boie, 1826)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-pyrrhogaster
Cynops ensicauda (Hallowell, 1861)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-ensicauda
Cynops orphicus Risch, 1983
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-orphicus
Cynops wolterstorffi (Boulenger, 1905)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-wolterstorffi
Cynops orientalis (David, 1873)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-orientalis
Cynops cyanurus Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-cyanurus
Cynops glaucus Yuan, Jiang, Ding, Zhang, and Che, 2013
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-glaucus
Cynops chenggongensis Kou and Xing, 1983
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-chenggongensis
Cynops fudingensis Wu, Wang, Jiang, and Hanken, 2010
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Cynops/Cynops-fudingensis
Pachytriton brevipes (Sauvage, 1876)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Pachytriton/Pachytriton-brevipes
Paramesotriton chinensis (Gray, 1859)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Paramesotriton/Paramesotriton-chinensis
Paramesotriton Chang, 1935
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Paramesotriton
Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Pachytriton/Pachytriton-granulosus
Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Pachytriton
Ichthyosaura Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1802
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Ichthyosaura
Pleurodelinae Tschudi, 1838
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae
Lissotriton Bell, 1839
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Lissotriton
Taricha torosa (Rathke, 1833)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Taricha/Taricha-torosa
Triturus Rafinesque, 1815
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Triturus