Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Advanced Search

The advanced search allows you to refine your search by entering criteria against a range of different properties.

The search is performed against all the criteria you enter below, allowing you to do queries such as:

Fields accept wildcards '%' which will match any number of characters in that field.

Within Group

e.g. HYLIDAE, Columbinae

CAVS or CAAB code

e.g. 1234 or %434

Type Data

e.g. Darwin or Kangaroo Is%
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e.g. 212310

Name Details

This search allows you to find individual names within the selected group (or across the whole database, if no group is selected).

You can use the '%' character as a wild card to match any number of characters in your search.

Here are some examples:

  • Psylloidea will match Psylloidea exactly.
  • Psyll% will also match the name Psylloidea and anything else starting with Psyll.
  • %fraxini would match the epithet 'fraxini', part of the valid name binomial Psyllopsis fraxini.

To match a species epithet only, you need to provide a wild card to match the other parts of the binomial or trinomial.

Distribution

Note: The distribution search only finds those taxa for which the the selected distribution is explicitly set. It will not infer distributions where a smaller region is wholly contained within in a larger one, nor will it find higher-order taxa based on distributions derived from the taxa within it.
Note: Selecting any distribution fields will limit your search to species and subspecies.
e.g. %Europe%
e.g. %Port Denison%