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 Taxon: Acris crepitans

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea Günther, 1858

Family: Strabomantidae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinecke, 2008

Subfamily: Pristimantinae Pyron and Wiens, 2011

Genus: Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872

Species: Oreobates heterodactylus

                Synonym: Oreobates crepitans Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado C., Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
Synonym: Pristimantis (Pristimantis) crepitans Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Synonym: Pristimantis crepitans Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007
Synonym: Eleutherodactylus crepitans Bokermann, 1965
            

Family: Hylidae Rafinesque, 1815

Subfamily: Acridinae Mivart, 1869

Genus: Acris

Synonym: Acris Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Species: Acris blanchardi

                Synonym: Acris crepitans blanchardi Conant, 1958
Synonym: Acris crepitans paludicola Duellman, 1977
Synonym: Acris gryllus blanchardi Harper, 1947
Synonym: Acris gryllus paludicola Burger, Smith, and Smith, 1949
Synonym: Acris blanchardi Gamble, Berendzen, Shaffer, Starkey, and Simons, 2008
            

Species: Acris crepitans

                Synonym: Acris crepitans crepitans Conant, 1958
Synonym: Acris crepitans Baird, 1854
Synonym: Acris gryllus crepitans Cope, 1875
Synonym: Acris gryllus var. crepitans Jordan, 1878
            

Species: Acris gryllus

                Synonym: Acris gryllus Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Synonym: Acris acheta Baird, 1854
Synonym: Acris gryllus gryllus Cope, 1875
Synonym: Acris gryllus var. bufonia Boulenger, 1882
Synonym: Acris gryllus achetae Garman, 1884
Synonym: Acris gryllus dorsalis Netting and Goin, 1945
            

Genus: Pseudacris Fitzinger, 1843

Species: Pseudacris crucifer

Synonym: Acris pickeringii Jan, 1857

Species: Pseudacris nigrita

Synonym: Acris nigrita Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Species: Pseudacris ocularis

Synonym: Acris ocularis Mittleman, 1946

Subfamily: Cophomantinae Hoffman, 1878

Genus: Boana Gray, 1825

Species: Boana crepitans

                Synonym: Hypsiboas crepitans Wagler, 1830
Synonym: Hyla crepitans Wied-Neuwied, 1824
Synonym: Auletris crepitans Leunis, 1844
Synonym: Hypsiboas crepitans Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
Synonym: Hyla (Hylomedusa) crepitans Burmeister, 1856
Synonym: Hyla crepitans Cochran, 1955
Synonym: Boana crepitans Dubois, 2017
            

Family: Microhylidae Günther, 1858 (1843)

Subfamily: Asterophryinae Günther, 1858

Genus: Cophixalus Boettger, 1892

Species: Cophixalus crepitans

                Synonym: Cophixalus crepitans Zweifel, 1985
Synonym: crepitans Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021
            