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: Pseudis

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Alytidae

Genus: Discoglossus

Species: Discoglossus pictus

Synonym: Pseudis picta Bonaparte, 1840

Species: Discoglossus sardus

Synonym: Pseudis sardoa Gené, 1839

Family: Hylidae

Subfamily: Pseudinae

Genus: Lysapsus

Species: Lysapsus bolivianus

                Synonym: Pseudis boliviana Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007
            

Species: Lysapsus caraya

                Synonym: Pseudis caraya Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007
            

Species: Lysapsus laevis

                Synonym: Pseudis laevis Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007
Synonym: Pseudis laevis Parker, 1935
            

Species: Lysapsus limellum

                Synonym: Pseudis limellum Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007
Synonym: Pseudis limellum Boulenger, 1882
            

Genus: Pseudis

Synonym: Pseudis Wagler, 1830

Species: Pseudis bolbodactyla

                Synonym: Pseudis bolbodactyla Lutz, 1925
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus bolbodactylus Gallardo, 1961
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxa bolbodactyla Bokermann, 1966
            

Species: Pseudis cardosoi

Synonym: Pseudis cardosoi Kwet, 2000

Species: Pseudis fusca

                Synonym: Pseudis fusca Garman, 1883
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus fuscus Gallardo, 1961
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxa fusca Bokermann, 1966
Synonym: Pseudis fusca Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007
            

Species: Pseudis minuta

                Synonym: Pseudis minuta Günther, 1858
Synonym: Pseudis meridionalis Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926
Synonym: Pseudis mantidactyla Boulenger, 1882
Synonym: Pseudis minutus Savage and Carvalho, 1953
Synonym: Pseudis brasiliensis Peters, 1863
            

Species: Pseudis paradoxa

                Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus nicefori Cochran and Goin, 1970
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus caribensis Gallardo, 1961
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxa caribensis Murphy, 1997
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus paradoxus Gallardo, 1961
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus Savage and Carvalho, 1953
Synonym: Pseudis merianae Duméril and Bibron, 1841
            

Species: Pseudis platensis

                Synonym: Pseudis platensis Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007
Synonym: Pseudis paradoxus platensis Gallardo, 1961
            

Species: Pseudis tocantins

Synonym: Pseudis tocantins Caramaschi and Cruz, 1998

Genus: Scarthyla

Species: Scarthyla vigilans

Synonym: Pseudis vigilans Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2011