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: Paratelmatobius gaigeae

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea Günther, 1858

Family: Eleutherodactylidae Lutz, 1954

Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae Lutz, 1954

Genus: Eleutherodactylus Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Species: Eleutherodactylus guttilatus

Synonym: Syrrhophus gaigeae Schmidt and Smith, 1944

Family: Strabomantidae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinecke, 2008

Subfamily: Pristimantinae Ohler and Dubois, 2012

Genus: Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

Species: Pristimantis gaigei

                Synonym: Eleutherodactylus gaigeae Taylor, 1952
Synonym: Pristimantis gaigeae Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007
Synonym: Pristimantis (Pristimantis) gaigeae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
            

Family: Leptodactylidae Werner, 1896 (1838)

Subfamily: Paratelmatobiinae Ohler and Dubois, 2012

Genus: Paratelmatobius

Synonym: Paratelmatobius Lutz and Carvalho, 1958

Species: Paratelmatobius cardosoi

Synonym: Paratelmatobius cardosoi Pombal and Haddad, 1999

Species: Paratelmatobius gaigeae

                Synonym: Paratelmatobius gaigeae Bokermann, 1966
Synonym: Leptodactylus gaigeae Cochran, 1938
Synonym: Paratelmatobius pictiventris Lutz in Lutz and Carvalho, 1958
            

Species: Paratelmatobius lutzii

Synonym: Paratelmatobius lutzii Lutz and Carvalho, 1958

Species: Paratelmatobius mantiqueira

Synonym: Paratelmatobius mantiqueira Pombal and Haddad, 1999

Species: Paratelmatobius poecilogaster

Synonym: Paratelmatobius poecilogaster Giaretta and Castanho, 1990

Species: Paratelmatobius segallai

                Synonym: Paratelmatobius segallai Santos, Oliveira, Carvalho, Zaidan, Silva, Berneck, and Garcia, 2019
            

Species: Paratelmatobius yepiranga

Synonym: Paratelmatobius yepiranga Garcia, Berneck, and Costa, 2009