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: Pelobates syriacus

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Bufonidae

Genus: Bufo

Species: Bufo spinosus

Synonym: Pelobates Wilsoni Boscá, 1919

Family: Pelobatidae

Genus: Pelobates

Synonym: Pelobates Wagler, 1830

Species: Pelobates balcanicus

                Synonym: Pelobates syriacus balcanicus Karaman, 1928
Synonym: Pelobates balcanicus chloeae Dufresnes, Strachinis, Tzoras, Litvinchuk, and Denoël, 2019
Synonym: Pelobates balcanicus balcanicus Dufresnes, Strachinis, Tzoras, Litvinchuk, and Denoël, 2019
Synonym: Pelobates balcanicus Dufresnes, Strachinis, Tzoras, Litvinchuk, and Denoël, 2019
            

Species: Pelobates cultripes

Synonym: Pelobates cultripes Tschudi, 1838

Species: Pelobates fuscus

                Synonym: Pelobates fusca var. marmorata Prazák, 1898
Synonym: Pelobates fuscus var. lividis Koch, 1872
Synonym: Pelobates fuscus insubricus Mertens, 1923
Synonym: Pelobates latifrons Herón-Royer, 1888
Synonym: Pelobates insubricus Cornalia, 1873
Synonym: Pelobates fuscus Wagler, 1830
Synonym: Pelobates fuscus insubricus Crottini, Andreone, Kosuch, Borkin, Litvinchuk, Eggert, and Veith, 2007
Synonym: Pelobates praefuscus Khosatzky, 1985
Synonym: Pelobates fuscus fuscus Mertens, 1923
            

Species: Pelobates syriacus

                Synonym: Pelobates syriacus syriacus Mertens, 1923
Synonym: Pelobates syriacus boettgeri Mertens, 1923
Synonym: Pelobates syriacus Boettger, 1889
Synonym: Pelobates transcaucasicus Delwig, 1928
            

Species: Pelobates varaldii

Synonym: Pelobates varaldii Pasteur and Bons, 1959

Species: Pelobates vespertinus

                Synonym: Pelobates fuscus var. orientalis Severtsov, 1855
Synonym: Pelobates fuscus vespertinus Crochet and Dubois, 2004
Synonym: Pelobates campestris Severtsov, 1855
Synonym: Pelobates vespertinus Suryadnaya, 2014
Synonym: Pelobates borkini Zagorodniuk, 2003
            

Order: Caudata

Family: Salamandridae

Subfamily: Pleurodelinae

Genus: Ommatotriton

Species: Ommatotriton vittatus

Synonym: Molge syriacus Lataste, 1877