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 "Amphibia" returned 366 results

Bufo spinosus Daudin, 1803
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo/Bufo-spinosus
Ensatina eschscholtzii Gray, 1850
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Ensatina/Ensatina-eschscholtzii
Hyperolius mariae Barbour and Loveridge, 1928
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius/Hyperolius-mariae
Bufonidae Gray, 1825
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae
Ambystomatidae Gray, 1850
Amphibia/Caudata/Ambystomatidae
Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (Gayda, 1940)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Pelophylax/Pelophylax-kurtmuelleri
Pelobates fuscus (Laurenti, 1768)
Amphibia/Anura/Pelobatidae/Pelobates/Pelobates-fuscus
Hyperolius Rapp, 1842
Amphibia/Anura/Hyperoliidae/Hyperoliinae/Hyperolius
Proteus anguinus Laurenti, 1768
Amphibia/Caudata/Proteidae/Proteus/Proteus-anguinus
Boana punctata (Schneider, 1799)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Boana/Boana-punctata
Pelophylax Fitzinger, 1843
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Pelophylax
Leptobrachella Smith, 1925
Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Leptobrachella
Pelophylax perezi (López-Seoane, 1885)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Pelophylax/Pelophylax-perezi
Hynobiidae Cope, 1859 (1856)
Amphibia/Caudata/Hynobiidae
Rana dalmatina Fitzinger, 1838
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Rana/Rana-dalmatina
Hyla orientalis Bedriaga, 1890
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyla/Hyla-orientalis
Trachycephalus "typhonius"
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Trachycephalus/Trachycephalus-typhonius2
Bufotes sitibundus (Pallas, 1771)
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufotes/Bufotes-sitibundus
Hylidae Rafinesque, 1815
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae
Lissotriton helveticus (Razoumovsky, 1789)
Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Lissotriton/Lissotriton-helveticus
Hylinae Rafinesque, 1815
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae
Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802)
Amphibia/Anura/Pipidae/Dactylethrinae/Xenopus/Xenopus-laevis
Scinax Wagler, 1830
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Scinax
Bufo Garsault, 1764
Amphibia/Anura/Bufonidae/Bufo
Bombina variegata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Amphibia/Anura/Bombinatoridae/Bombina/Bombina-variegata
Amolops Cope, 1865
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops
Pelophylax bedriagae (Camerano, 1882)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Pelophylax/Pelophylax-bedriagae
Leptodactylus macrosternum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926
Amphibia/Anura/Leptodactylidae/Leptodactylinae/Leptodactylus/Leptodactylus-macrosternum
Gymnophiona
Amphibia/Gymnophiona
Dicroglossidae Anderson, 1871
Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae

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