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 "Odorrana" returned 85 results

Odorrana khalam (Stuart, Orlov, and Chan-ard, 2005)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Odorrana/Odorrana-khalam
Odorrana bacboensis (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Odorrana/Odorrana-bacboensis
Odorrana banaorum (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Odorrana/Odorrana-banaorum
Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-mengyangensis
Babina Thompson, 1912
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Babina
Amolops daorum (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-daorum
Nanorana arunachalensis (Saikia, Sinha, and Kharkongor, 2017)
Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae/Dicroglossinae/Nanorana/Nanorana-arunachalensis
Amolops medogensis Li and Rao, 2005
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-medogensis
Amolops hainanensis (Boulenger, 1900)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-hainanensis
Wijayarana melasma (Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Wijayarana/Wijayarana-melasma
Amolops compotrix (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-compotrix
Amolops cucae (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-cucae
Amolops vitreus (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-vitreus
Amolops iriodes (Bain and Nguyen, 2004)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-iriodes
Amolops archotaphus (Inger and Chan-ard, 1997)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-archotaphus
Wijayarana masonii (Boulenger, 1884)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Wijayarana/Wijayarana-masonii
Pterorana Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Pterorana
Huia Yang, 1991
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Huia
Nidirana Dubois, 1992
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Nidirana
Ranidae Batsch, 1796
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae
"Hylarana" montivaga (Smith, 1921)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Hylarana-montivaga
Pelophylax Fitzinger, 1843
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Pelophylax
Amolops Cope, 1865
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops
Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855)
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Amolops/Amolops-marmoratus
Rana Linnaeus, 1758
Amphibia/Anura/Ranidae/Rana

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