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: Hoplobatrachus

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Dicroglossidae

Subfamily: Dicroglossinae

Genus: Fejervarya

Species: Fejervarya cancrivora

                Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) cancrivorus Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) raja Dubois, 1987
            

Species: Fejervarya moodiei

Synonym: Hoplobatrachus moodiei Dubois, 1987

Species: Fejervarya verruculosa

Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) verruculosus Dubois, 1987

Genus: Hoplobatrachus

Synonym: Hoplobatrachus Peters, 1863

Species: Hoplobatrachus crassus

                Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) crassus Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus crassus Dubois, 1992
Synonym: Rana (Hoplobatrachus) ceylanicus Günther, 1872
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus ceylanicus Peters, 1863
            

Species: Hoplobatrachus litoralis

                Synonym: Hoplobatrachus litoralis Hasan, Kuramoto, Islam, Alam, Khan, and Sumida, 2012
            

Species: Hoplobatrachus occipitalis

                Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) occipitalis Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus occipitalis Dubois, 1992
            

Species: Hoplobatrachus rugulosus

                Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) rugulosus Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus chinensis Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus rugulosus Dubois, 1992
            

Species: Hoplobatrachus tigerinus

                Synonym: Hoplobatrachus tigerinus Dubois, 1992
Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) tigerinus Dubois, 1987
            

Family: Ranidae

Genus: Pelophylax

Species: Pelophylax demarchii

                Synonym: Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) demarchii Dubois, 1987
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus demarchii Dubois, 1992
            

Species: Pelophylax nigromaculatus

                Synonym: Hoplobatrachus reinhardtii Peters, 1867
Synonym: Hoplobatrachus davidi David, 1873
            