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: Albericus laurini

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Microhylidae

Subfamily: Asterophryinae

Genus: Choerophryne

Synonym: Albericus Burton and Zweifel, 1995

Species: Choerophryne alpestris

Synonym: Albericus alpestris Kraus, 2010

Species: Choerophryne brevicrus

Synonym: Albericus brevicrus Günther and Richards, 2012

Species: Choerophryne brunhildae

Synonym: Albericus brunhildae Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne darlingtoni

Synonym: Albericus darlingtoni Burton and Zweifel, 1995

Species: Choerophryne exclamitans

Synonym: Albericus exclamitans Kraus and Allison, 2005

Species: Choerophryne fafniri

Synonym: Albericus fafniri Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne gudrunae

Synonym: Albericus gudrunae Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne gunnari

Synonym: Albericus gunnari Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne laurini

                Synonym: Albericus laurini Günther, 2000
Synonym: Choerophryne laurini Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016
            

Species: Choerophryne murrita

Synonym: Albericus murritus Kraus and Allison, 2009

Species: Choerophryne pandanicola

Synonym: Albericus pandanicolus Günther and Richards, 2012

Species: Choerophryne rhenaurum

Synonym: Albericus rhenaurum Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne sanguinopicta

Synonym: Albericus sanguinopictus Kraus and Allison, 2005

Species: Choerophryne siegfriedi

Synonym: Albericus siegfriedi Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne swanhildae

Synonym: Albericus swanhildae Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne tubercula

Synonym: Albericus tuberculus Burton and Zweifel, 1995

Species: Choerophryne valkuriarum

Synonym: Albericus valkuriarum Menzies, 1999

Species: Choerophryne variegata

Synonym: Albericus variegatus Burton and Zweifel, 1995