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: Xenopus gilli

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Pipidae

Subfamily: Dactylethrinae

Genus: Xenopus

Synonym: Xenopus Wagler, 1827

Species: Xenopus epitropicalis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Silurana) epitropicalis Kobel, Loumont, and Tinsley, 1996
Synonym: Xenopus epitropicalis Fischberg, Colombelli, and Picard, 1982
            

Species: Xenopus tropicalis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis Kobel, Loumont, and Tinsley, 1996
Synonym: Xenopus tropicalis Müller, 1910
            

Genus: Hymenochirus

Species: Hymenochirus boettgeri

Synonym: Xenopus boettgeri Tornier, 1896

Genus: Xenopus

Species: Xenopus allofraseri

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) allofraseri Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
            

Species: Xenopus amieti

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) amieti Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus amieti Kobel, du Pasquier, Fischberg, and Gloor, 1980
            

Species: Xenopus andrei

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) andrei Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus andrei Loumont, 1983
            

Species: Xenopus borealis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) borealis Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus laevis borealis Parker, 1936
Synonym: Xenopus borealis Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973
            

Species: Xenopus boumbaensis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) boumbaensis Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus boumbaensis Loumont, 1983
            

Species: Xenopus calcaratus

                Synonym: Xenopus (Silurana) calcaratus — Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
Synonym: Xenopus (Dactylethra) calcaratus Peters, 1875
            

Species: Xenopus clivii

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) clivii Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus clivii Peracca, 1898
            

Species: Xenopus eysoole

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) eysoole Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
            

Species: Xenopus fischbergi

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) fischbergi Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
Synonym: Xenopus alboventralis Salamone, 2006
            

Species: Xenopus fraseri

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) fraseri Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus fraseri Boulenger, 1905
            

Species: Xenopus gilli

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) gilli Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus gilli Rose and Hewitt, 1927
            

Species: Xenopus itombwensis

                Synonym: Xenopus itombwensis Evans, Carter, Tobias, Kelley, Hanner, and Tinsley, 2008
            

Species: Xenopus kobeli

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) kobeli Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
            

Species: Xenopus laevis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) laevis Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus boiei Wagler, 1827
Synonym: Xenopus laevis laevis Parker, 1936
Synonym: Xenopus laevis Steindachner, 1867
Synonym: Xenopus (Dactylethra) boiei Schlegel, 1858
Synonym: Xenopus bojei Van der Hoeven, 1833
            

Species: Xenopus largeni

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) largeni Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus ethiopii Herrmann, 1994
Synonym: Xenopus largeni Tinsley, 1995
            

Species: Xenopus lenduensis

                Synonym: Xenopus lenduensis Evans, Greenbaum, Kusamba, Carter, Tobias, Mendel, and Kelley, 2011
            

Species: Xenopus longipes

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) longipes Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus longipes Loumont and Kobel, 1991
            

Species: Xenopus mellotropicalis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Silurana) mellotropicalis Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
Synonym: Xenopus paratropicalis Flajnik, Kasahara, Shum, Salter-Cid, Taylor, and du Pasquier, 1993
            

Species: Xenopus muelleri

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) muelleri Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus mülleri Peters, 1875
Synonym: Xenopus muelleri Boulenger, 1882
            

Species: Xenopus parafraseri

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) parafraseri  Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015
            

Species: Xenopus petersii

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) petersii Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895
Synonym: Xenopus laevis petersi Parker, 1936
Synonym: Xenopus petersii Channing, 2001
            

Species: Xenopus poweri

                Synonym: Xenopus poweri Hewitt, 1927
Synonym: Xenopus laevis poweri Schmidt and Inger, 1959
Synonym: Xenopus laevis sudanensis Perret, 1966
Synonym: Xenopus sudanensis Jacobsen, 2009
Synonym: Xenopus poweri Furman, Bewick, Harrison, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kusamba, and Evans, 2015
            

Species: Xenopus pygmaeus

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) pygmaeus Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus pygmaeus Loumont, 1986
            

Species: Xenopus ruwenzoriensis

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) ruwenzoriensis Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus ruwenzoriensis Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973
            

Species: Xenopus vestitus

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) vestitus Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus vestitus Laurent, 1972
Synonym: Xenopus kigesiensis Tinsley, 1973
            

Species: Xenopus victorianus

                Synonym: Xenopus victorianus Ahl, 1924
Synonym: Xenopus laevis victorianus Loveridge, 1933
Synonym: Xenopus laevis bunyoniensis Loveridge, 1932
Synonym: Xenopus (laevis) bunyoniensis Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973
Synonym: Xenopus victorianus Channing and Howell, 2006
            

Species: Xenopus wittei

                Synonym: Xenopus (Xenopus) wittei Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998
Synonym: Xenopus wittei Tinsley, Kobel, and Fischberg, 1979
            