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 Plethodon dunni returned 105 results

Plethodon jacksoni Newman, 1954
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-jacksoni
Plethodon kentucki Mittleman, 1951
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-kentucki
Plethodon cylindraceus (Harlan, 1825)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-cylindraceus
Plethodon variolatus (Gilliams, 1818)
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-variolatus
Plethodon larselli Burns, 1954
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-larselli
Plethodon wehrlei Fowler and Dunn, 1917
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-wehrlei
Plethodon richmondi Netting and Mittleman, 1938
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-richmondi
Plethodon vandykei Van Denburgh, 1906
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-vandykei
Plethodon ouachitae Dunn and Heinze, 1933
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-ouachitae
Plethodon fourchensis Duncan and Highton, 1979
Amphibia/Caudata/Plethodontidae/Plethodontinae/Plethodon/Plethodon-fourchensis

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