Search tool
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Example of search string in box
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What that means to the database
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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string
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Hyl*
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Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string
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*Hyla
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Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
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Single word
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Hyla
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Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
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Strings of words without quotation marks
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Lithobates pipiens
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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
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Strings of word with quotation marks
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"Lithobates pipiens"
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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.
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AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND
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Lithobates AND pipiens
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Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
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OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR
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Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"
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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
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Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)
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Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri
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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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