Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research

Search Hints

Boolean wildcards and truncation let you easily combine or eliminate search words, making your search simpler:

• A percent sign (%) will match zero or more characters in that position (for example: "%floridana" would find "Metharpinia floridana" and "a[%]b" would find "a%b").
• An underscore (_) will match one character at that position anywhere in a word (for example: "Me_harpinia" would find Metharpinia or Mecharpinia and "a[_]b" would find "a_b").
• Brackets ([]) will match any single character within the specified range ([a-f]) or set ([abcdef]). Please note that "a[[]b" would find "a[b" and "a]b" would find "a]b".