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 "Phrynobatrachus natalensis" returned 34 results

Phrynobatrachus njiomock Zimkus and Gvoždík, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-njiomock
Phrynobatrachus francisci Boulenger, 1912
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-francisci
Phrynobatrachus graueri (Nieden, 1911)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-graueri
Phrynobatrachus cricogaster Perret, 1957
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-cricogaster
Phrynobatrachus horsti Rödel, Burger, Zassi-Boufou, Emmrich, Penner, and Barej, 2015
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-horsti
Phrynobatrachus manengoubensis (Angel, 1940)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-manengoubensis
Phrynobatrachus jimzimkusi Zimkus, Gvoždík, and Gonwouo, 2013
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-jimzimkusi
Phrynobatrachus guineensis Guibé and Lamotte, 1962
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-guineensis
Phrynobatrachus steindachneri Nieden, 1910
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-steindachneri
Phrynobatrachus ruthbeateae Rödel, Doherty-Bone, Kouete, Janzen, Garrett, Browne, Gonwouo, Barej, and Sandberger, 2012
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-ruthbeateae
Phrynobatrachus ghanensis Schiøtz, 1964
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-ghanensis
Phrynobatrachus alleni Parker, 1936
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-alleni
Phrynobatrachus hylaios Perret, 1959
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-hylaios
Phrynobatrachus werneri (Nieden, 1910)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-werneri
Phrynobatrachus acridoides (Cope, 1867)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-acridoides
Phrynobatrachus phyllophilus Rödel and Ernst, 2002
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-phyllophilus
Phrynobatrachus plicatus (Günther, 1858)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-plicatus
Phrynobatrachus batesii (Boulenger, 1906)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-batesii
Phrynobatrachus tokba (Chabanaud, 1921)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-tokba
Phrynobatrachus liberiensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1927
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-liberiensis
Phrynobatrachus africanus (Hallowell, 1858)
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-africanus
Phrynobatrachus auritus Boulenger, 1900
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-auritus
Phrynobatrachus latifrons Ahl, 1924
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus/Phrynobatrachus-latifrons
Phrynobatrachus Günther, 1862
Amphibia/Anura/Phrynobatrachidae/Phrynobatrachus

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