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: Bombina bombina

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Bombinatoridae Gray, 1825

Genus: Bombina

Synonym: Bombina Oken, 1816

Species: Bombina bombina

                Synonym: Bombina (Bombina) bombina Tian and Hu, 1985
Synonym: Bombina bombina Stejneger, 1907
Synonym: Bombina bombina arifiyensi Özeti and Yilmaz, 1987
Synonym: Bombina bombina var. viridis Marián, 1959
Synonym: Bombina bombina danubialis Calinescu, 1931
Synonym: Rana bombina Linnaeus, 1761
Synonym: Bombinator variegatus bombina Prazák, 1898
Synonym: Bufo (Bombinator) bombina Cuvier, 1829
Synonym: Bombinator bombina Bedriaga, 1890
Synonym: Bombina ignea Sturm, 1828
Synonym: Bufo bombina Schinz, 1837
            

Species: Bombina fortinuptialis

                Synonym: Bombina (Glandula) fortinuptialis Tian and Hu, 1985
Synonym: Bombina (Grobina) fortinuptialis Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Bombina fortinuptialis Hu and Wu in Liu, Hu, Tian, and Wu, 1978
Synonym: Bombina fortinuptialis Tian and Wu in Hu, Tian, and Wu, 1981
            

Species: Bombina lichuanensis

                Synonym: Bombina lichuanensis Ye and Fei in Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993
Synonym: Bombina (Grobina) lichuanensis Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005
            

Species: Bombina maxima

                Synonym: Bombina maxima Stejneger, 1905
Synonym: Bombina (Glandula) maxima Tian and Hu, 1985
Synonym: Bombina (Grobina) maxima Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Bombina maxima maxima Yu, Yang, Zhang, and Rao, 2007
            

Species: Bombina microdeladigitora

                Synonym: Bombina microdeladigitora Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960
Synonym: Bombina (Glandula) microdeladigitora Tian and Hu, 1985
Synonym: Bombina (Grobina) microdeladigitora Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Bombina maxima microdeladigitora Yu, Yang, Zhang, and Rao, 2007
            

Species: Bombina orientalis

                Synonym: Bombina (Bombina) orientalis Tian and Hu, 1985
Synonym: Bombina orientalis Stejneger, 1907
Synonym: Bombina orientalis var. silvatica Korotkov, 1972
Synonym: Bombina orientalis var. praticola Korotkov, 1972
            

Species: Bombina variegata

                Synonym: Bombina (Bombina) variegata Tian and Hu, 1985
Synonym: Bombina variegata pachypus Mertens and Müller, 1928
Synonym: Bombina salsa var. csikii Fejérváry, 1922
Synonym: Bombina variegata csikii Mertens and Müller, 1928
Synonym: Bombina variegata variegata Mertens and Müller, 1928
Synonym: Bombina variegata Mertens, 1928
Synonym: Bombina salsa Nikolskii, 1918
Synonym: Bombina variegata kolombatovici Mertens and Müller, 1928
Synonym: Bombina variegata gracilis Bolkay, 1929
Synonym: Bombina variegata scabra Müller, 1940
Synonym: Bombina pachypus Lanza and Vanni, 1991
Synonym: Bombina igneus var. brevipes Koch, 1872
Synonym: Bombina maculatus Gistel, 1868
            

Family: Pelobatidae Bonaparte, 1850

Genus: Pelobates Wagler, 1830

Species: Pelobates fuscus

                Synonym: Bombina fusca Sturm, 1828
Synonym: Bombina marmorata Sturm, 1828
            