xoology

On this page we will showcase some of the combinations and diversities of exotic zoology, commonly called, xoology, a variation of zoology and a contraction of xenozoology. If you have information on entries below or on others which we have not yet listed please contact us, fellow xoologist, at hierogamous@lycos.com.

Afghant hound: large, slender, 6-legged caninoid with long, thick hair, pointed muzzle, drooping ears and antennae

ahulph: [The Anome by Jack Vance] domesticated subhuman from Durdane that communicates by odor

akman: [“In the Walls from Eryx” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling] wringling, slimy creature

Alborak: silver horse from Mohammed able to travel at hundreds kilometers per second

Aldebaran serpent: ["Hide and Q" by C. J. Holland] 3-headed reptilian from alpha Tauri

Alfzarian dragon: ["Honorable Enemies" by Poul Anderson] from Borthudian mts., Alfzar, Betelgeuse system

amdok: [Warrior of Llarn, Theif of Llarn by Gardner F. Fox] scaly, Shetland pony-sized megapodan with 3 eyes, large powerful jaw, whip-like tail used as steed from Llarn

amphisbæna: [Pliny] serpent with head at each end , said to protect in pregnancy when alive, curing rheumatism when dead

angbut: [City of the Chasch by Jack Vance] food ichthoid of the Green Chasch from Nion

angurusaur: ["Godzilla Raids Again" aka "Gigantis, the Fire Monster" by Shigeru Kayama] 120-meter tall biped with nearly useless forearms, back plates, outward-pointing fangs, small ears, multiple brains, breaths fire

anthropoid: human-like animal, see diplovertubron, hornadon, humped man, monster men, nane, orangopoid

apapanu: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] large rock-like water-spouting creature from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

appamoosa: [appaloosa + moose] equinoid with moose-like antlers and spotted rump

apt: [The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs] Barzoomian pongoid, 2-meter tall at shoulder with white fur, 2 arms, 4 legs, hippo-like mouth with 2 large slightly curving tusks, large multi-lidded compound eyes

arabe: [Le Mammouth Bleu by Luc Alberny] milk animal from Grande Euscarie

arachnoid: spider-like animal, see avray, hook spider, Lycosa tarantula, spigas, targo, yembla

argea: [The Cry of the Onlies by Judy Klas] 6-legged arboreal animal from Boaco VI

Arkarian water fowl: ["Starship Mine" by Morgan Grendel] ornithoid from Arkar noted for mating habits

aspara: [Islandia] scarlet-beaked white seagull with brown back, swift and agile as swallow

assp: [ass + asp] venomous equinoid with large ears, serpentine neck and head

Astran dragon: [The Stars Are Ours by Andre Norton] winged yellow-green 2.5-meter snake from Astra (Deutero-Sol II), with small flat head on a long neck, protruding belly, 25-centimeter claws, large webbed feet

aukoala: [auk + koala] amphibian with razor-bill, short wings, webbed feet, large ears, sharp claws, pouch

aya: [The Queen of Zamba, etc. by L. Sprague de Camp] equinoid steed from Krishna, tau Ceti system

ayuk: [King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pourelle] moose-like animal with prehensile tail and semi-prehensile claws from Makassar

avray: ["horror", "doom" Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree, Jr.] plum-colored, arachnoid decapod from Damien, Yttei system

Azarian ant-bear: [Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs] large as an elephant

azdyryth: [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] small whale-like creature with gator-like head

bakamaru: “Seed of Reason” by Daniel Hatch] green arboreal felinoid from Chamal, imitated by shapeshifting Chamalians

balaseli: [“Passage” by Joe Haldeman] flying creature both like manta and bat with 3.6-meter wingspan, 12 legs, glossy black back, white underside with hook-like cilia able to skin victim before eating alive, noted in rite of passage to adulthood from Obelobel

ball creature: [Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley] docile, nocturnal spheroidal herbivore from Duroon, Jedi galaxy, that moves by bouncing

bandersnatch: [Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll] frumious creature; [“Dear Mom” by Stephen C. Fisher] larger-than-man-sized blue-black sauroid biped with beak and no arms from La Paz

Banerian hawk: ["If Wishes Were Horses" by Nell McCue and William L. Crawford] hawk-like ornithoid from Baneria

banth: [Edgar Rice Burroughs] Barzoomian "lion", dekapodal predator, 3.5-meters long, yellow-skinned, hairless except for great bristly mane, several rows of needle-like fangs, enormous green eyes and powerful tail

bantha: ["Star Wars IV: A New Hope" by George Lucas, Tatooine Manhunt by Bill Slavicsek and Daniel Greenberg] large quadruped with long thick fur, (males) with long spiral horns, believed by Dim-U priests to hold key to a new golden age

baragon: 45-meter saurian with body back shell, large ears, curved forehead horn, ability to spit lightning bolts and leap great distances

bardicant: [Araminta Station by Jack Vance] large and voracious but lithe, slate-gray omnivore from Deucas with skewer-like tail

bardok: [Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin] white-furred creature from Sarpeidon, beta Niobe

bargump: [Ghost-Walker by Barbara Hambly] dominant animal from Midgwis (Elcidar Beta III)

basilisk: dangerous animal with cock's body, iron claws and beak, tripesnake's tail, whose stare is fatal and can be killed by its own reflection

basto: [Carson Napier series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] large,wild blue boar-like creature from Napier's planet with powerful tusks, elephantine-like hide

Belzoidian flea: ["Deja Q" by Richard Danus] flea-like insectoid from Belzoid

benu: [Egyptian] sacred eagle-like purple heron, see fêng-huang, phoenix

Berengarian dragon: ["This Side of Paradise" by D. C. Fontana] yellow-orange, crested, winged herbivorous 19-meter long dracoid from Berengaria VII with long tail, 700-year lifespan

bi: [“Confluence” by Brian Aldiss] Northern Myrin cockerel thought mythical

bibbling: [Bibblings by Barbara Paul] ornithoid necessary for the continued sanity of unmarried, fertile natives from Lodon-Kamaria

bishtar: [The Queen of Zamba, etc. by L. Sprague de Camp] elephantine cart-puller from Krishna, tau Ceti system

biyelk: [Helliconia trilogy by Brian Aldiss, see yelk] from Helliconia, Batalix-Freyr system

blackfish: [Syzygy by Michael G. Coney] shark-like Arcadian predator, periodically telepathically controlled by breeding plankton

blase tree goat: ["Ewoks" TV series] arboreal goat-like creature that hangs lethargically like sloth, from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

blob: ["The Blob"] amorph that grows to 15 meters across by absorbing flesh on contact, nearly impossible to kill

blood-sucker: ["Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster] troublesome vampiric flying monkey from Loren II

bloodworm: [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson] 2.4 to 5-cm translucent invertibrate from Arodi (Regulus A II and V) with 4 bloodsucking tentacles

blope: ["Ewoks" TV series] hippo-like swamp-dweller, Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

blue giraffe: ["The Blue Giraffe" by L. Sprague de Camp] mutant giraffe

boghog: [Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams] porcoid from bogs of NowWhat with valuable skin, but meat eaten only in desperation

boisha: [A Miracle of Rare Design by Michael Resnick] ruminant food animal from Artismo

bolognat: [bologna + gnat] small biting insectoid with curved cylindrical body

bonegnawer: ["Star Wars IV: A New Hope" by George Lucas] flying desert carnivore with tooth-filled jaws strong enough to crush rock, Jedi galaxy

boogen: ["The Boogens"] 60-centimeter centipede-like bloodsucker with whip-like tentacles

bordok: ["Ewoks" TV series] medium-sized pony-like equinoid used as beast of burden by Ewoks, Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

borogove: [Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll] thin, shabby mop-like bird

Boschian monster: [The Gardens of Delight by Ian Watson] monster like those depicted by Hieronymus Bosch on 4H97801

brontëosaur: [“The Infinormatics Laboratory” by Ian Stewart] sauroid with 2 spring-like legs from Ombilicus

budger: [Earth in Twilight by Doris Piserchia] jungle-dwelling mutant

Bulgallian rat: ["Coming of Age" by Sandy Fries] frightening but not deadly

bunyip: [Journal of the Anthropological Institute] swamp-dwelling maneater

butterfish: ["Uncharted Territory" by Connie Willis] perverse ichthoid from Boohte

Caldorian eel: ["Unification" by Rick Berman and Michael Piller] 1.2-meter

calicobra: [calico + cobra] venomous hooded serpentinoid with black, white and red markings

Calonack elephant : [Voiage de Sir John Maundebil] elephantine animal from Calonack

calot: [Edgar Rice Burroughs] Barzoomian "dog", pony-sized decapod with frog-like head and 3 rows of razor-sharp teeth

Caltiki: ["Caltiki, the Immortal Monster"] radioactive, flesh-eating, blood-sucking amoeboid worshiped by Mayans

caninoid: dog-like Afghant hound, animal, see dhog, dobermantis, muskfox, sungwas, tharban

catlat: [Galactic Patrol by E. E. Smith] diminuitive but numerous cephalopodan from Delgon with bulbous head, parrot-like beak, tentacles

cathgan: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] small but poisonous Lemurian red snake

cecil: [Motie series by Larry Niven] sea serpentinoid from Maxroy's Purchase

cerpedos: [Memoires De Sir George Wollap by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis] white-furred, red-eyed squirrel from Aprilis, New Britain Islands

Ceti eel: ["Wrath of Khan" by Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards] sole surviving lifeform on Menkar V, alpha Ceti system, 35-cm 10-legged burrowing mollusc with large pinchers

Cetus: [“Belly of the Beast”] supposedly mythical planet-eater threated Savion again after 6 millennia

ch'i-lin: ssu ling of the West, Chinese unicorn with deer-like body, ox's tail, hooves

charlas: [Memores De Sir George Wollap by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis] tall hare with cat-like tail from Aprilis, New Britain Islands

chierofa: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] molluscoid of outer reef, a delicacy when cured and heated from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

chinzu: [“Dorsai” by Gordon R. Dickson] food animal from the Hixabrod

Circassian cat: ["Violations" by Shari Goodhartz and T. Michael and Pamela Gray] funny-looking felinoid

clickfly: [A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewsky] attendant to naked Sharers from Shora the Ocean Moon of Valedon

clinger: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] beetle-like insectoid air-eater that glows when near body heat from Hraggellon (Dunuos II)

clingey: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom] dangerous ground-dweller from Pandora

cobrahma: [cobra + Brahma] bovinoid with hooded head, pendulous dewlap, long neck and shoulder hump

constrictosaur: ["Flash Gordon” series] constrictor reptilian from Mongo

coraknot: [The First Kingdom by Jack Katz] large, long-necked dracoid quadruped

corgodrill: [Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman] small rainbow-colored pongoid

corkscrew beetle: [cortexclavus, The Wine of Violence by James Morrow] insectoid from Carlotta, Malnovian belt, UW Canis Majoris system

couch potato: ["Uncharted Territory" by Connie Willis] extraordinarily sedentary animal from Boohte

cowl: [cow + owl] nocturnal 4-legged milk-producing ornithoid with hooked talons, short beak, and large forward-set eyes protected by hood-like facial skin

crabbit: [crab + rabbit] decapod with broad, flattened carapace, short antennae, 2 large pinchers, long ears and short tail

creep: ["The Night of the Creeps"] black, slug-like brain-eating parasite

creeping unknown: ["The Quatermass Experiment"] space-borne spores in dormant state that grow into 6-meter tall amorphous parasite with long twining tentacles by consuming flesh, turns host into fungus-like life-sucker carrying over memories and physical attributes to next victim

cremont: [Earth in Twilight by Doris Piserchia] jungle-dwelling mutant

cutthroat: ["At the Zoo" by Rick Shelley] raccoon-faced baboon-like Albinian creature

Dagora: ["Dagora, the Space Monster" by Shinichi Sekizawa] 30-meter long lighter-than-air jelly-fish-like with 60-meter tentacles, crystalized by wasp venom

dahara: [Michael Kane series by "Edward Powys Bradbury" (Michael Moorcook)] pongoid the size of Shire horse with wide kangaroo-like tails and large hind legs used as steed on Kane's world

danakak: [“A Star Is Born” by Jerry Oltion] mouth-dwelling scavenger symbiot of the Darefta

daymare: [The Right Hand of Dextra by David J. Lake] ornithoid from Dextra

deadly spawn: in immature state 8-cm worm; in mature state 2-meter, 1.5-tonne reddish with plant-like trunk, 3 headseach with large mouth, no eyes, 2 long tentacles with pinchers

deltagar: [Jandar of Callisto by Lin Carter] sabretoothed tiger-like predator from jungle moon of Thanator with whip-like serrated tail, remarkably fast for its size, shaggy scarlet fur, 2 fantastic curling horns, neck ruff

Denevan neural parasite: ["Operation: Annihilate" by Steven W. Carabotsos] amorphous, gelatinous parasitic gestalt that devastated beta Portola, Levinius V, theta Cygni XII, Ingraham B and finally Deneva

deodath: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] Lemurian dragon-cat with 2 brains, 3 hearts

dewback: ["Star Wars IV: A New Hope" by George Lucas] large reptilian herbivore used as beast of burden and guard animal in arid ecosystems, Jedi galaxy

dhole: ["The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft] enormous slimy, rustling, crawling, burrowing nocturnal creatures from the Pnoth valley, Isle of Oriab, Southern Sea, Dreamworld

dianoga: ["Star Wars IV: A New Hope" by George Lucas] 10-meter long 7-tentacled omnivore from shallow pool and murky swamps with one eyestalk, Jedi galaxy

digdogger: [The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo] giant one-eyed sea urchin from kingdom of Hyrule

digworm: [Han Solo's Revenge by Brian Daley] small burrowing worm whose digestive juices can dissolve rock from planet Kamar, Jedi galaxy

dikironium cloud creature: ["Obsession" by Art Wallace] space-faring gaseous bloodthirsty predator able to phase shift to become invisible

dinko: [Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley] palm-sized venomous creature with powerful hind legs covered with serrated spurs, 4 "arms", needle-like fangs that secretes a foul-smelling liquid to mark territory and discourage predators, Jedi galaxy

diplovertubron: ["The Monster of Piedras Blancas by C. Haile Chace] 1.8-meter tall scaly anthropoid with large claws, 2 blunt horns, large flared nostrils, fleshy shoulder pads, lumpy, varicose chest veins

dirosaur: [“The Prince and the Pirate” by Keith Laumer] forest sauroid with long neck and chin spike hunted on Elora

divto: [“Ewok” series] 3-meter, 3-headed nocturnal venomous snake from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

dîwe: [Persian] shapeshifting ogre with animal faces, large tusks and horns

dnazd: [Killing Machine by Jack Vance] centipede-like creature with large poison-tipped mandibles from Misk Mts. of Thamber

dobermantis: Doberman + manta] pale green caninoid hexapod with powerful grasping forelimbs

dog-bird: [The Travels and Adventures of William Bingfield, Esq.] great flightless ornithoid from Bingfield's Island with shaggy hair, greyhound-like head, pig-like tail, long legs with panther-like claws, lays eggs and gives milk

dograt: [King of Argent by John Phillifent, dog + rat] scavenger from Argent, Alcone II

dollphin: [doll + dolphin] short-snouted mermaid-like cetacean with humanoid face markings

dottle: ["The Book of Ptath" by A. E. Van Vogt] sleek, scarlet, one-horned quadrupedal steed from Gonwonlane

dracoid: dragon-like animal, see Berngarian dragon, coraknot, dragonnewt, dragonsnail, dwark, eelbird, fumsh, Gappa, Ghidorah, gocko, grakk, groack, gryphorg, harrekki, illuyanka, kiu-lung, Krayt dragon, lajazell, lung, mantigrue, snow dragon, spahlen-tier, tannin, volcano mutant, vouivre, yathrib, yü-lung, zah, zell

dragonfly: "dragonfly from another world", Adventures of the Fly] dragon-like fire-breathing 5.5-meter tall, 11-meter long insectoid with purple skin, 4 legs, 2 heads, 2 wings

dragonnewt:[White Bear and Red Moon by Greg Stafford] newt-like dracoid from Glorantha

dragon-slug: ["Star Wars" series by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, Prophets of the Dark Side by Paul and Hollace Davids] slug-like lumni-spice eating cavern dweller from Hoth VI, Jedi galaxy

dragonsnail:[White Bear and Red Moon by Greg Stafford] snail-like dracoid from Glorantha

drakken: [The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg] top predator -- with rammerhorn -- from the waterworld Hydros

dreamer: [“The Winged Dreamers” by Jennifer Guttridge] furry, transparent-winged flier that “exists for living their dreams”, telepathic gestalt on Durban's world

drella: ["Wolf in the Fold" by Robert Bloch] love-eater from Canopus (alpha Carinae) V

drillbit: [The Integral Trees by Larry Niven] dangerous parasite from Smoke Ring, LeVoy's star ship

dryworm: [“Who Mourns for Adonais?" by Gilbert Ralston] giant worm-like creature from Antos IV

duitra: ["The Ambergris Element" by Margaret Armen] aka sur-snake, red tentacled, whale-sized venomous sea monster from Argo

dumbo: [The Integral Trees by Larry Niven] dangerous preditor in Smoke Ring, LeVoy's system

duplgoose: [Amazing Logic Puzzles by Norman D. Willis] goose-like ornithoid from Dranac that lays eggs in pairs

durkii: [“Droids” series] hideous, 3-meter reptilian megapodan with baboon face

durok: [“Battle for Alana” by Bernie Krigstein] steed adapted to icy cold

duster: [“The Paracite Planet” by Stanley G. Weinbaum] giant moth-like insectoid

dwark: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] large tyrannosaur-like jungle dracoid

dyryth: [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] arboreal, sloth-like, elephant-sized shaggy-haired herbivore with bark-slashing claws, defensive tail

Ebirah: [“Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster”] 110-m lobster from Letchi Island

eelbird: [“Amok Time” by Theodore Sturgeon] 9-meter, dracoid with snake-like body, feathery wings and tail, 2 large clawed legs, light prismatic blue underbelly, noted for its 11-yr migration to western caves from Arodi, Regulus A V

eelephant: [eel + elephant] elephant-like quadruped with serpentine “trunk”

eelk: [eel + elk] large greyish-brown ruminant with long branching antlers and serpentine tongue

elacroc: [“The Cryer of Crystal” by Joseph Green] big as an elephant with teeth like a crocodile from Crystal

elenu: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] ichthoid from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

elephant-bird: [Atkanda-lihiniya, Sri Lanka and Nepal] huge bird able to hold elephants in talons, see rukh

elephant-tiger: [1001 Arabian Nights] tiger-like felinoid with elephantine head and wings

eleroo: [Wuz series by Douglas Hutchison] elephantine megapodan from Wuz

emh: [“The Altar of Redemption” by Anne Laurie Logan] large animal of the jauneans

equinoid: horse-like animal, see assp, aya, boarse, bordok, fastiga, igriou, tigrelis, vykar, zebrhino

evillya: [the Mushroom Planet series by Eleanor Cameron] insectoid from Basidium

farnoth: [“In the Walls from Eryx” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling] fly-like insectoid

fastiga: [The Three-cornered Wheel” by Poul Anderson] long-eared, long-snouted equinoid from Ivanhoe system

fathla: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] awful, cat-sized arboreal leech from Lemuria

fatty: [Syzygy and Brontomek by Michael G. Coney] tuna-like ichthoid, primary food source of colonists from Arcadia

felinoid: cat-like creature, see bakamaru, elephant-tiger, felinodore, gok, heraldic panther, ja, jaguon, Kryonian tiger, larl, nebek, octopuss, orcat, power-cat, ritoodolorum, slashback, tigron, Tlînian tiger, vandar, yali, yayax

fêng-huang: [Chinese] beautifully feathered bird with enchanting cry, ssu ling of the South, see benu, phoenix

fierson: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen Trading Cards] ravenous, fanged ursinoid with apish face from Kroto, Sirius system

fingershell: [A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewsky] used to control fingershell parasites by colonists on Shora, the Ocean Moon from Valedon

fire beetle: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen Trading Cards] enormous insectoid with hypnotic powers and adapted to high temperatures

firebird: [“At the Zoo” by Rick Shelley] supergaudy pheasant-like ornithoid from Fennich

fishbird: [The Reefs of Space by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson] multitudinous prey of the pyropods

fkyd: [“The Altar of Redemption” by Anne Laurie Logan] quadruped of the jauneans

flatwing: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom] dangerous ground dweller from Pandora

flendag: [Ghost-Walker by Barbara Hambly] creature that nests in streams from Midgwis (Elcidar Beta III)

fleratii: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] large, silvery flying-fish-like ichthoid from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

flesheater: [“The Flesh Eaters”] microbes that grow upon electrification to glowing lumpy oval 6 by 12 meters with 9 feeding tendrils, 1 white eye spot, poisoned by blood

flion: [fly + lion] griffinoid with insectoid wings and antennae and felinoid body

flit: [The Barber of Aldebaran by William Moy Russell] insignificant seeming but producing an astonishingly potent pheromone to which animals, humans, and even robots are not resistant

flongboo: [Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg] yellow, nocturnal predator with luminous tail that lives in hollow trees of Saskatchewan

floob: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] short-legged, brown-furred creature of Parramat archepelago, Senisran

floob-boober-bab-boober-bub: [On Beyond Zebra by Dr. Seuss] variant of floob (?)

flumsh: [Sugar and Spike series] 9-meter long, 6-meter tall dracoid, pink with blue spots, red crest and back plates, fangs, yellow forehead horn, vestigial yellow wings, 4 short legs, able to fix anything (by reversing local time?) with forked red tongue

four-mouth: [“The Wondrous Works of His Hands” by Jayge Carr] noted for great appetite from Thuban, Draco constellation

fox-bear: [Island of Dr. Moreau by Herbert Gerge Wells] fox-headed ursinoid mutant

frallop: [Earth in Twilight by Doris Piserchia] jungle-dwelling mutant

frankenswine: [Mirabile by Janet Kagan] porcinoid Dragon's Tooth mutant reminiscent of Frankenstein's monster

frayoomnairo: [Mushroom Planet series by Eleanor Cameron] egg-sized mushroom-like animal from Basidium

f'tan: [“Seed of Reason” by Daniel Hatch] porcine from Chamal, imitated by shapeshifting Chamalians

fusorian: [The Reefs of Space by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson] single-cell interstellar space dweller that fuses free hydrogen into heavier elements forming the Reefs of Space

gaarnokh: [Flandry series by Poul Anderson] horned creature from Starkad

gagh: [“A Matter of Honor” by Wanda M. Haight, Gregory Amos and Burton Armus] Klingon “serpent worms” eaten either live or stewed from Qonos

gaid: [Book of Dreams by Jack Vance] 6-meter ichthoid from Aloysius with luminifer-tipped dorsal spines

gatortoise: [alligator + tortoise] amphibious sauroid with high, rounded carapace, powerful jaws

Gamera: [“Gamera the Invincible” by Nizo Takahashi] 60-meter long, 80-tonne chelonian energy-eater with nearly impenetrable shell, upward-pointing tusks, green blood, able to fly by retracting legs and shooting jets out from 2 or 4 legholes

gananoid: [The First Kingdom by Jack Katz] very long necked quadruped

ganute: [Earth in Twilight by Doris Piserchia] 3-eyed, black, wooly, blue-mouthed jungle-dwelling mutant

Gaos: 61-meter tall nocturnal biped with small, powerful claws, flat bird-like head, stiff neck, leathery wings, big yellow eyes with red irises, bright pink blood, able to shoot destructive yellow sonic beam from double throat, regenerate injured body parts, put out fires with yellow vapor, killable with ultraviolet light

Gappa: [“Gappa -- the Triphibian Monster” (Monster from a Prehistoric Planet) by Iwao Yamazak and Ryuzo Nakanishi] 90-meter tall bipedal dracoid with bat-like wings, fat horn, able to breathe fire

garthok: [Coneheads by Tom Davies and Dan Aykroyd] hexapod from Remulak, Cone nebula

gauntling: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] river animal from Hraggellon (Duruos II)

gaya: [“Shadow Lord” by Laurence Yep] long-haired, 3-meter long goat-like herd animal from Angira

gettle: [“Chain of Command” by Frank Abatemarco] wild herd animal from Cardassia

ghastozar: [Callisto series by Lin Carter] seagull-sized flying predator from Thanator

Ghidorah: [“Ghidrah” by Shinichi Sekizawa] 14-meter tall, 3-headed, long-necked dracoid with leathery wings, back spines, 2 tails, golden scales, able to spit lightning

ghole: [“Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” by Ursula K. LeGuin] experimental animal from Hain

giant claw: [“The Giant Claw” by Samuel Newman and Paul Gargelin] vulture-like ornithoid with 60-meter wingspan, pearshaped body, long neck, large head protected by antimatter shield neutralizable by muon beam

giant electric penguin: [“Scott of the Sahara”, Monty Python's Flying Circus series] 6-meter tall dessert-dwelling penguin-like biped with glowing eyes and 2 long green tentacles

gibik: [Highway by Neal Barrett, Jr.] extraordinarily viscious lemmit-like predator

Gigan: [“Godzilla vs. Gigan” by Jun Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa] 120-meter biped with large claws, tail, 3 flimsy but utile wings, armor plating particularly on forehead (from which destructive beam comes), shoulders, thighs, kneepads, beak and mandibles, one large red eye, neckspikes, buzzsaw in chest (!) from Hunter nebula

gilvo: [“New Ground” by Grant Rosenberg] rare stick-like tree-dweller from rain forests of Corvan II

giriffin: [giraffe + griffin] quadruped with long neck and legs, tan with orange-brown blotches, short horns, eagle-like head, lion-like body

glider squid: [A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewsky] red-blooded cephalopoid from Shora, the Ocean Moon of Valedon

glob fly: [“The Outrageous Okona” by Les Menchen, Lance Dickson and David Landsberg] Klingon insectoid half the size of a Terran mosquito but with loud buzzing sound from Qonos

glowpossum: [Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein] luminescent rodent-like marsupial from Charity

gnar: [“Seed of Reason” by Daniel Hatch] rodentoid from Chamal, imitated by shapeshifting Chamalians

gnnayh: [Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver] bird of prey from Houyhnhnm Island

gocko: [“Flash Gordon” series] 9-meter long green underground-dwelling dracoid with serpentine torso, 6 taloned feet, lobster-like claws, nostriled beak, forked tail from Mongo

gohma: [The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo] cyclops monster crab from Hyrule

Gojira: [“Godzilla” by Inoshira Honda and Takeo Murata] 120-meter tall radioactive bipedal sauroid with jagged back plates, able to breathe fire

gok: [“A Race through Dark Places” by J. Michael Straczynski] felinoid from Minbar

golden beetle: [Gor series by John Norman] rhino-sized insectoid with meter-wide mandibles, golden main, feeds primarily on priest-kings

Gonalian moth: [“Disaster” by Ron Jarvis and Philip A. Scorza] swarming insectoid from Gonal IV

goober peacock: [goober pea + peacock] blightly-colored ornithoid with peanut-shaped body

goraffe: [gorilla + giraffe] tan centaur-like hexapod with orange-brown blotches, pongoid upper body and 4 long legs

gorgosaur: [“Gorgo” by Carson Bingham] 75-meter tall bipedal sauroid with large ears, red eyes, armored back and tail from Nara Island

gorillasaur: [Mighty Samson series] large fanged pongoid with lower quarters of lizard

gorolla: [The Barber of Aldebaran by William Moy Russell, gorilla-like?] fierce animal from Toxicurare

gorwol: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] silver-furred animal huntable only by Onhla from Starside Hraggellon (Dunuos II)

grabfoot: [Uhura's Song by Janet Kagon] underground-dwelling chicken-sized dinosauroid from Sivao

grakk: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] large, scaly, green-blooded “lizard-hawk” dracoid with 12-meter wingspan, long neck, barbed tail, hideous head, hooked beak, scarlet eyes, blue spiny crest from Lemuria

grakka: [Brick Bradford series] bipedal saurian with powerful arms, jaw and tail, horn on back of head, back spikes, bullet-proof hide

gravel-maggot: [“Star Wars IV: A New Hope” by George Lucas] worm-like creature that feeds on rotting flesh from hills and rocky badlands of Tatooine, Jedi galaxy

green slime: [“The Green Slime” by Charles Sinclair, William Finger and Tom Rowe] reproduces from what looks like green blood into bipedal, 3-clawed footed, 2-armed mound with red orb on top, double boney back ridge, electrogenic pincers for self-cauderizing wounds

greep: [Motie series by Larry Niven] crab-like quadruped from Maxroy's Purchase

greeshka: [“A Song for Lya” by George R. R. Martin] cave-dwelling parasite able to give pseudo-immortality to empathic Shkeen in 10-year Joining

grelbon: [Coneheads by Tom Davies and Dan Aykroyd] carrion-eating heron-like ornithoid with half-meter wingspan from Remulak, Cone nebula

griffi-saur: [Sea Devils series] 5-meter orange-skinned boped with lion-like head and mane, feathery wings, scaly skin

griffletae: [“The Dashing About Flying Box People” by Uncle River] sleepy, sluggish creature from Craton V

grimb: [“The Book of Ptath” by A. E. van Vogt] 3.6-meter tall creature with small 3-horned head on long yellow neck on green body with bluish-violet tail from Gonwonlane

gring: [Metamorphosis by Jean Lorrah] purplish fanged pongoid with 4-fingered hands

groack: [Callisto series by Lin Carter] towering, scaly, flippered “river dragon”

groke: [Muumipappa merellä, Muumipappan urotyöt by Tove Jansson] creature with large, round eyes fascinated by lamps whose loneliness causes ground to freeze

gron: [“Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” by Ursula K. LeGuin] “scapegoat” from Hain

grounder: [Highway by Neal Barrett, Jr.] insidious, threatening to Lemmits

gryf: [Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs] 6-meter triceratops-like sauroid with blue body, yellow face and belly, blue bands around eyes, red hood, 3 boney back ridges (yellow, red and yellow), used as steed in Pal-ul-don, Zaire

gryphorg: [Fly Man series] 12-meter long omnivorous dracoid conjured by Evilo with 12-meter bat-like wings, grey skin, nearly useless forearms, long neck, back plate

Guilala: [“The Big Space Monster Guilala” (The X of Outer Space) by Kazui Nihonmatsu, Eibi Motomochi, Moriyoshi Ishida] 60-meter tall sauroid biped with lumpy skin, large leg frills, claws, beak, 2 flat body projections from sides from face, 2 antennae, 1 horn, shrinks when exposed to guilalium

Guiron: [“Gamera vs. Guiron” (Attack of the Monsters) by Fumi Takahashi] 60-meter long biped shaped like a butcher's knife with eyes on sides, brawny arms, stumpy legs

gundark: [“Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back” by Donald E. Glut] strong, wild, 4-armed 1.5-meter long pongoid whose ear-pulling was a rite of initiation

Gunji jackdaw:[“If Wishes Were Horses” by Neil McCue Crawford and William L. Crawford] ostrich-like ornithoid

gwythaint: [Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander] huge black bird used as spy and exectioner by Arawn, defeated by crows

haha: [The Last Yggdrasill by Robert F. Young] ornithoid from New America (Genji V), fed by Quantextils, made extinct with the cutting of the last Yggdrasill tree

hanadak: [“Ewoks” series] ferocious creature like grizzly-baboon from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

handbird: [The Right Hand of Dextra by David J. Lake] hand-like ornithoid from Dextra

harikap: [Palace of Love, Star King by Jack Vance] large bristly biped from Sarkoy

harrekki: [Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin] small dracoid the size of a girl's hand with wings and talons, feeding on worms, wasps and sparrow's eggs from Iffish, Earthsea

haxopod: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] beast of burden from Hraggellon (Dunuos II)

Hedorah: [“Godzilla vs. Hedorah” (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster)] 60-meter “flying pancake” garbage-eater with bulging eyes that leaves a sulphuric acid trail that grew into 120-meter amorph with red eyes, stumpy legs, pseudopods, long flat tail

heela: [Warriors of Mars by Edward Powys Bradbury and Michael Moorcock] 8-legged hyena-sized creature from Kane's world with 6 curved talons, long neck with 2 heads each with 4 eyes, razor-like teeth, 2 tails, barrel-like torso, feed on own dead when prey unavailable

heraldic panther: monstrous felinoid with blue, green and red spots with flaming mouth and ears from heraldry

hermit: [Diaspora by Greg Egan] molluscoid with interferometer vision from the janus tree forests of Poincaré

hexip: [The Right Hand of Dextra by David J. Lake, "hex-" + "hippos"] equine from Dextra

hipporcupine: [hippopotamus + porcupine] hippoid with long, sharp, erectile quills

hippopotamouse: [hippopotamus + mouse] river-dwelling hippo-sized rodentoid

hive-rat:[King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pourelle] fierce oviparous rodentoid from Makassar

hlai: [pl. hlaiin, The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood] large flightless food ornithoid from 128 Trianguli system

hlorg: [“Contamination Crew” by Alan Nourse] pink omnivorous blob absorbs on atomic level via nuclear enzyme particularly carbon

hooded dasher: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Random] dangerous ground-dweller from Pandora

hook spider: [“Realm of Fear”] Talarian arachnoid with half-meter legs

hopiak: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] flying creature like bird and bat with pink eye below and above short beak from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

hopper: [The Stars Are Ours by Andre Norton] kangaroo rat-like from Astra (Deutero-Sol II)

hoppopotamus: [Wuz series by Douglas Hutchison] rabbit-like hippoid from Wuz

hornadon: [The First kingdom by Jack Katz] 60-centimeter tall, horned, fanged anthropoid

horse-rhino: [The Island of Dr. Moreau by Herbert George Wells] horse-headed rhinoceros mutant

howlrunner: [Han Solo's Revenge by Brian Daley] wild, canine-like omnivore from Kamar with humanoid-skull-like head

hoxney: [Heliconia trilogy by Brian W. Aldiss] creature from Helliconia, Batalix-Freyr system

hrotr: [“The Altar of Redemption” by Anne Laurie Logan] flying animal of the jauneans

huffalon: [Amazing Logic Puzzles by Norman D. Willis] beast of burden from Dranac

hugger: [The Barber of Aldebaran by William Moy Russell] exotic lifeform

hugl:[“The Chosen People” by Robert Randall] invested Nidor, see wiggle-worm until edris powder discovered

humbug: [The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster] large beetle-like insectoid in lavish coat, striped trousers, checkered waistcoat, spats and derby

humming peeper: [“Ewoks” series] small, flying swampdweller from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy with sleep-enducing hum

humped man: [The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson] anthropoid from the Night Land

hydrapoid: [The Microbots series] 4.5-meter tall grey-furred creature with mammoth-like body, tusks, 2 tentacle-like “trunks”, 3 slimy, suckered feeding tentacles on either side of face

hyena-swine: [Island of Dr. Moreau by Herbert George Wells] hyena-headed porcine mutant

hylighter: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Random] orange jellyfish-like lighter-than-air carnivore from Pandora

ice-ant: [“Flight on Titan” by Stanley G. Weinbaum] cold-adapted insectoid from Nivia colony, Titan

ichthoid: fish-like animal, see blackfish, butterfish, cradlefish, elenu, fatty, fleratii, fox-fish, gaid, lampray, lion-fish, pepperfish, revavuaa, rugfish, seaweed shark, sharkon, struul, suhur mas, treel, turby, wolf-fish

igriou: [Grondo “lazy”; La Découverte de L'Empire de Cantahur by De Varennes de Mondasse] white donkey-like person-shy equinoid from Cantahar Island that needs dog for motivation

inlati: [Doomsday World by Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenberger] spicy-tasting ichthoid

insectoid: insect-like animal, see antgora, Belzoidian flea, bolognat, clinger, corkscrew beetle, dragonfly, duster, evillya, fire beetle, glob fly, gnant, golden beetle, Gonalian moth, humbug, ice-ant, kete, khrukai, lychbug, makant, sificligh, sith, skarat, slimebug, tabbee

isak: [pl. isakki, Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman] wild, toothy, black animal

ja: [Tarzan the Terrible by EdgarRice Burroughs] sabre-toothed, yellow-and-black striped lion-like felinoid from Pal-ul-don, Zaire, [“Confluence” by Brian Aldiss] depraved underground animal from Myrin

jabberwock: [Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll illustrated by John Jenniel] 6-meter tall creature with thin legs, 3-toed dinosaur-like foot, thin arms with 3 long furry claws, long rat-like tail, bat-like wings, pear-shaped body, serpentine neck, fish-like head with fins jutting from lower jaw and tendrils from sides of mouth, bug-eyes, no nose, antennae, scales

jaguon: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen trading cards] lion-like felinoid adapted to high temperatures

Jaiga: [“Gamera vs. Jiger” (Gammera vs. Monster X”) by Fumi Takahashi] 60-meter long stregosauroid that can spit quill-like spears, shoot heat ray, fly using jets under neck shield

Jarvis' sea-monster: [Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper] source of tallow wax, main export from Fenris

Joranian ostrich: [“Past Prologue” by Kathryn Powers] bird noted for hiding head under water, sometimes too long

kadeko: [Eros Descending by Michael Resnick] beast of burden from Grotamana, Quinellus cluster

kailiauk: [Gor series by John F. Lange, Jr. as John Norman] large, lumbering, gregarious and dangerous, shaggy, trident-horned 2-tonne ruminant with 4 stomachs, 8-valved heart 2.5-meter at shoulder

kâkamadhenu: [Bengali] sphinx with cow's body, human face or [Bhârhut] lion's body with or without wings

kangaroo rex: [Mirabile by Janet Kagan] tyrannosaur-like megapodan mutant from Dragon's Tooth, Mirabile

karix: [The Goddess of Ganymede by Michael D. Resnick, Donald M. Grant] lion-like day-blind creature the size of a grizzly with retractable suction cups on foot, with loud roar from Thane's moon

karkadann: hay-eater larger than camel with forehead horn from Camphor Islansd

karkaddan: [1001 Arabian Nights] 1-horned, winged antelope intermediate in size between elephant and rukh

kautûhala: [Hindi] animal-animal mosaics, e.g., elephant-lion, deer-lion

keese: [The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo] cheropteroid from Hyrule controlled by Vire the devil

keratoro: [Space Ark by A. M Lightner] golden horned unicorn from Shikai

kete: [“Ewoks” series] large dragon-fly-like insectoid from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy, that builds spiral mounds made with sticky marshmallow-like substance

khrukai: [Flandry series by Poul Anderson, “swordwing”] swarming insectoid from Starkad

kik-kik: [“Shadow Lord” by Laurence Yep] giant beetle with luminous “eyes” in rat niche from Angira

kill-adder: [Witch of the Dark Gate by John Jakes] snake thick as man's arm with large fangs, threeked tongue

klake: [Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick] horned creature from Plowman's planet

kllhe: [The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood] dungworm from 128 Trianguli system

knife-kite: [“Flight on Titan” by Stanley G. Weinbaum] pterodactyl-like sauroid from Nivia colony, Titan

koala-shrew: [The Pollinators of Eden by John Boyd] symbiot to siren tulips from Flora

Krayt dragon: [“Star Wars IV: A New Hope” by George Lucas] large, carnivorous dracoid from Tatooine's Jundland mountains, Jedi galaxy

krith: [The Ring of Ritornel by Charles L. Harness] winged spider, most fearsome predator from the Deep in the Twelve Galaxies

Kroll: [“The Power of Kroll”] giant mutant squid with 250-meter head and 50+ tentacles worshipped (mistakenly) by Swampies of delta Magna III

kroter: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] fleet horse-sized reptilian steed from Lemuria

kroyie: [Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn] huge, canopy-dwelling ornithoid from Kashyÿk, Jedi galaxy, attracted to bright lights, hunted for food by Wookiees from Kashyyyk

Kryonian tiger: [“Imaginary Friend” by Jean Louise Matthias and Ronald Wilkerson and Richard Fliegel] tiger-like felinoid in xoo on Brentalia

labbeetle: [“Protective Mimicry” by Alguis Bulgess] selective vampiric beetle-like insectoid from Deneb Al Giedi (delta Capricornis) XI

labyrithodon: [aka sithig, Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] amphibian with crocodile-like jaws, toad-like body

lagardo: [“Dear Mom” by Stephen C. Fisher] 1-meter tall blue-black sauroid biped with beak and no arms, that spreads its wattles when excited from La Paz

lajazell: [Callisto series by Lin Carter] small winged dracoid from seashore, Thanator, related to zell

lalu: [Servants of the Wankh by Jack Vance] wild animal from Long Bones steppe, Maz

lambprey: [lamb + lamprey] small, wooly quadruped with jawless sucking mouth with rasping teeth

lampray: [lamprey + ray] ichthoid with horizontally flattened body, narrow tail, and jawless sucking mouth with rasping teeth

lanmola: [The Legend of Zenda by Nintendo] monstrous centipede from Hyrule

lantern bird: [“Ewoks” series] large, beautiful ornithoid with shimmering nest, incandecent tail feathers used in medicinal potions from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

lapling: [“The Most Toys” by Shari Goodhartz] small creature with long snout thought extinct but discovered in Kivas Fajo's collection and later Nagus Quark's

larl: [Gor series by John F. Large Jr. as John Norman] white-furred, panther-like felinoid with wide head a yard in diameter and immobilizing roar

larpa: [The Cry of thre Onlies by Judy Klass] hooting camel-like beast of burden with long muzzle from Boaco IV

larth: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] seaserpent “twice ship-size” with lashing tail, claws, fangs from Lemuria

leapdog: [The Monstrous Regiment by Storm Constantine] hazard from Mireway Artemis, Shamberel-Guino system

leever: [The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo] red or blue 4-horned gumdrop-like energy-eater from Hyrule

le-matya: [Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson] yellow and green predator from T'Khasi (Vulcan), 40 Eridani system, both cat-like and dog-like with diamond-like side markings, striped tail

lepon: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen trading cards] 2.1-meter long carnivore like both lion and flying squirrel with webbed paws adapted to low gee

leviosaur: [“The Door of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” by Roger Zelazny] comparable to leviathan

licat: [Ghost-Walker by Barbara Hambly] small predator from Midgwis (Elcidar Beta III)

lidi: [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] diplodocus-like beast of burden of the Thurians, Pellucidar

lightning beast: [Mighty Samson series] giant reptilian that can unleash a high-voltage charge

liobear: [Mighty Samson series] golden furred, 3-meter tall lion-headed ursine

lion-dog: [China] aka dog from Fo, bushy-tailed lion-like creature occasionally with wings or one horn

Loch Moose monster: [Mirabile by Janet Kagan] moose-like lake monster mutant from Dragon's Tooth, Mirabile

lossine: [Voyage au center de la terre] 180-centimeter leathery sauroid used as watchdog from Albur, Pluto

lug: [Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams] large-headed, bug-eyed non-hopping megapodan that grazes on grass-like moss, able to teleport, on Amaterasu

luggage: [“Uncharted Territory” by Connie Willis] extraordinarily sedentary animal from Boohte

luhimuh: [Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver] wild rat from Houyhnhnm Island

lychbug: [Marune: Alastor 933 by Jack Vance] stinging insectoid of Marune

lyhannh: [Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver] large swallow-like bird from Houynhhnm Island

Lysenkan mole: [Enemies of the System by Brian Aldiss] bipedal mole mutant from Lysenka II

Magma: [“Gorath” by Takeshi Kimura] 75-meter tall walrus with glowing eyes able to use flippers for defense

magma creature: [“The Caves of Androzani” by Robert Holmes] subterranean creature from Androzani Minor, Sirius system

magnoped: [“Flash Gordon” series] large pachyderm with pair of crushing tusks from Mongo

makant: [“Ewoks” series] large, playful insectoid like both mantise and cricket from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

manateel: [manatee + eel] long, thin aquatic mammaloid with broad, flattened tail and paddle-like flippers

manda: [“Atoragon” (Atragon) by Shinichi Sekizawa] 6-meter long aquaticsnake with 4 small vestigial limbs, 4 straight horns, 180-centimeter fangs, snout tentrils, short brown mane on back, yellow eyes from Mu

mantigrue: [“Ewoks” series] hideous, dracoid with leathery wings, sharp claws, long pointed beak from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

marax: [The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] 75-centimeter long crayfish

matouchi: [Mémoires De Sir George Wallop by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis] deer from Aprilis, New Britain Islands

medusa: [The Sign of the Mute Medusa by Ian Wallace] endangered azure aerial lifeform from Turquoise (Gannet IV)

megalon: [“Godzilla vs. Megalon” by Jun Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa] 120-meter tall biped with head and blotchy-yellow wings of beetle, 2 think mandibles, short spiked tail, plates, conical spinning “arms”, large red side-viewing eyes, antennae, horn with startip that shoots destructive ray, able to spit fireballs

mellitus; [“Wolf in the Field” by Robert Bloch] gaseous when in motion, solid when still from alpha Majoris I

menigirri: [Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman] plump, cobalt-colored sauroid with pleasant scent

metallovore: [Space Family Robinson: Lost in Space series] 12-meter long beetle-like creature with metallic scales, long smooth neck, 6 stocky legs (hindlegs thiner), rat-like tail, red eyes, on plant Altair, vulnerable to rust

miam: [Book of Dreams by Jack Vance] fly-like insectoid noted for musk from McVann's star system

mogo: [“Dropids” series] large, black-furred creature with undulating worm-like body and camel-like head from Roon, Jedi galaxy

mogwik: [“Bless the Beasts” by Karen Haber] purple quadruped with many eyes from Sardal, Delta quadrant

monkey-cat: [“Day of Burning” by Poul Anderson] grey, arboreal creature with high-pitched trilling hiss

monolith monster” [“The Monolith Monsters” by Robert M. Fesco and Jack Arnold] 4.5-meter tall black obelisk-like silicon-based lifeform that reproduces by falling and shattering, feeds on water and sand, turns living things into sandstone, growth stunted by salt

monster men: [“The Monster Men” by Edgar Rice Burroughs] monsters created by Prof. Maxon, #1 -- mountain of deformed ashen flesh with white hair, pink mismatched eyes, a gaping hole for a nose, twisted mouth, long mismatched arms and legs, large flat feet; #3 -- somewhat more humanoid with long black hair

monster of Disaster: [The Adventures of the Fly] multi-armed giant batrachian

moorvleerno: [Mushroom Planet series by Eleanor Cameron] small flying dragon from Basidium

morrt: [Star Wars Sourcebook by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith] loyal, friendly, cuddly, mouse-sized blood-sucking parasite from planet Gamorr, Jedi galaxy, considered status symbol by Gamorreans (20 for warlords)

Mosura: [“Mothra” by Shinichi Sekizawa] 60-meter long caterpillar that can shoot incredibly strong and sticky webbing that grows into moth-like insectoid with 120-meter wingspan from Infant Island

mouth: [The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg] predator from waterworld Hydros

mudmen: [“Droids” series] semi-solid anthropoid from Roon that tickle victims and then take their shiny objects packrat-like

mugato: [“A Private Little War” by Gene Roddenberry] 2-meter, 440-kilogram white-furred bipedal pongoid with dorsal spines and cranial horn, poisonous bite (treatable with mako root assisted blood transfusion)

Mull: [“Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster” by George Garrett] 1.8-meter humanoid guard-slave with long dark hair, 3-clawed hands, pointy ears, stone-like flesh, large eyes, double-slit nose, fangs

muskfox: [muskox + fox] caninoid with broad, flat curved horns, upright ears, pointed snout, long shaggy, musky hair and long bushy tail

muskrattler: [muskrat + rattler] large brown-furred aquatic rodentoid with musk glands and rattle on tail

mušhuššu: [Babylonian] fire-red horned dragon with lion forefeet, eagle hindfeet, scorpion stinger tail (Revelation 12:3)

mya: [The Chase” by Terry Nation] man-eating cephalopedan with short eyestalks from Aridius

mynock: [Star Wars Sourcebook by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith, The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut] 1.6-meter chiropteran silicon-based energy parasite with black leathery wings (wingspan 1.25 meters), armored skull, fangs, able to attach to spaceship with suckers, reproduce by splitting, from Jedi galaxy

n'aal: [Kane's world series by Michael Moorcock as Edward Powys Bradbury] giant snake-like creature

Na'ka'leen feeder: [“Grail” by Christy Marx] triped that feeds on brainwaves (preferably older ones), moving very fast during attack, discovered by Centauri on Na'ka'leen

nane: [The Closed Worlds by Edmond Hamilton] anthropoid with large, softly glowing eyes, no nose, small mouth, white skin, flexible (because boneless)

narlzak: [“Return to Karn” by Bill Motz] large mealworm-like burrower from Karn

narwalrus: [narwhal + walrus] 4-flippered amphibian with long spirally twisted tusk, tough, wrinkled skin and bushy, drooping mustache

nashtah: [Han Solo's Revenge by Brian Daley] 6-legged, bloodthirsty, green, sleek-sinned sauroid with triple row of teeth, diamond-hard claws, long barbed tail from Dra III, Jedi galaxy

nat: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen trading cards] spacefaring pterodon-like creature from planet Ex

nei'rrh: [The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood] poisonous hummingbird-like ornithoid from 128 Trianguli system

nek: [Star Wars: Dark Empire series by Tom Veritch and Cam Kennedy] caninoid from Cyborrean system with 3-clawed feet, sold on black market

nerf: [Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut] domesticated herbivore breed for meat and pelts from Jedi galaxy

nerve runner: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom] dangerous ground dweller from Pandora

nesset: [“Sacred Ground” by Lisa Klink] venomous 3-fanged serpentinoid

neurovore: [The Wine of Violence by James Morrow] savage, desert-dwelling brain-eater from Carlotta, Malnovian belt, UW Canis Majoris system

New Texan cattle: [A Planet for Texans” by H. Beam Piper and J. McGuire] 15-tonne, 1.2-meter tall bovinoid from New Texas

nicor: [“Queen of Air and Darkness” by Poul Anderson] creature like both elephant and ent, “elephent” from Roland

night beast: [“Star Wars” series by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson] bipedal, clawed sauroid with flat skull from Yavin IV, Jedi galaxy used as guard by Massassi

nightcrawler: [“Star Wars IV: A New Hope” by George Lucas] small, nocturnal insectoid from Tatooine, Jedi galaxy

night howler: [The Stars Are Ours by Andre Norton] moth-eating monkeys with huge eyes from Astra (Deutero-Sol II)

nightlizard: [Ghost-Walker by Barabara Hambly] nocturnal sauroid from Midgwis (Elcidar Beta III)

night-walker: [“Exploration Team” by Murray Leinster] troublesome creature from Loren II

nink: [The Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss] yellow, hairy, large-snouted creature found in sink

nonny: songbird that flies perpendicularly -- “All day she chirps her joysome odes and if she goes too far explodes.”

noshingra: [“The Peacefulness of Vivyan” by James Tiptree, Jr.] bimorphic shellfish aka come-and-go animal

nunk: [Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick] creature from Plowman's planet

octorok: [The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo] red or blue land octopoid able to spit rocks

oel: [Big Planet by Jack Vance] swamp-dwelling, 2.1-meter biped with narrow head, 4 horns, low-ing black dorsal carapace, 12 folding clawed arms, able to be trained to dance the mazurka

ogreon: [The First Kingdom by Jack Katz] 6-meter tall, horned, devil-faced bipedal man-eater

omnivore: [Omnivore by Piers Anthony] most ferocious of the 1-eyed, 1-legged animals from Nacre

ondryx: [Exiles by Howard Weinstein] herd animal with spindly legs, shoulder humps, complex forward-extending antlers, trunk from Kejor VI

ook: [Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause] pet from Shoon (aka Aurora, tau Ceti II)

oomfer: [Warrior of Llarn, Theif of Llarn by Gardner F. Fox] giant ornithoid steed from Llarn

ophiacodon: low, 3.7-meter sauroid with long hindlegs, large toothed jaw

opinicus: creature with serpent's body, lion's legs, long bill, pointy ears, eagle's wings, camel's tail

orangopoid: [orangutan + anthropoid, Flash Gordon series] horned long-armed anthropoid from Mongo

orc: [Dragons, Unicorns and Other Magical Beasts by Robin Palmer] man-eating sea creature with inpenetratable scales, tusks; [Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien] also goblin-like land orc

orcat: [orca + cat] large black and white amphibious predatory felinoid

org: [“This Moment of the Storm”, contraction from “organism-with-a-long-name-I-can't-remember”] 3-meter long, segmented body, wide head, traffic-signed eyes, pale little legs, razor-sharp teeth from Tierra del Cygnus, Cygnus

Orion parasite: “Operation: Annihilate” by Steven W. Carabatsos] gelatinous, colorless, football-sized amorph gestalt that drives host mad with pain, destroyed Aldebaran Magnus V, Ingraham B and Deneva

orluck: [Barzoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] yellow-and-black striped elephantine beast from Barzoom

ornad: [Earth in Twilight by Doris Piserchia] 9-meter long jungle-dwelling 16-legged, green and yellow, caterpillar with long head with long floppy ears, teeth worse than tail stinger, able to shoot webbing, lives in oval nest

ornithoid: bird-like animal, see Arkarian water fowl, Banerian hawk, bibbling, cowl, daymare, duplgoose, firebird, giant claw, grelbon, Gunji jackdaw, haha, handbird, hlai, kroyie, lantern bird, nei'rrh, ork, owltiger, parrotter, seagle, tarn, vulturchin

orthopoi: [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] small, 3-toed equine from Pellucidar

osc: little, gentle creature that swims on river's surface during day, feeding on “fluff and water-weed which other creatures do not need”, hangs bat-like at night

oucher-poucher: [National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe by Michael Whelan] metallophagous lifeform from Venus that moves by inflating pouch-like hydrogen sac and making bouncing landings

owltiger: [“The Hunting” by Doris Beetem] owl-like ornithoid with ears and beak-like fangs

owriss: [“Ewoks” series] large, harmless amorph from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

pacd;[Les Adventures de Jaques Sadeur by Gabriel Foigny] gregarious songbird from Terre Australe

pacer: [The Anoma by Jack Vance] draft animal from Durdane descended from bullocks

pachycephalosaur: [“boneheaded lizard”] 4.6-meter bipedal sauroid with thick knobby skull

packrattler: [pack rat + rattler] snake-like “borrowing” burrower with rattle on tail

paleosaur: [“The Giant Behemoth” by Robert Abel and Allen Adler] 1.2-meter tall, 1.8-meter long, long-necked quadrupedal reptilian amphibian

paraceratherium: [aka “baluchiterium”] 5.5-meter at shoulder long-legged rhinoceros with longish neck, no horn

parrotter: [parrot + otter] aquatic ornithoid with hooked bill, webbed feet, dense, dark brown fur-like feathers and secreting a decay accelerant

Party Beach monster: [“The Horror of Party Beach” by Richard L. Hilliard] mutant sea creature combined with human corpse in form of blood-thirsty humanoid with large scales, claws, dorsal fin, spiny-ray ears, bursts into flame with contact with sodium

PBO: [Planetary Bacteria Organism, Introduction a la Nouvelle Bacteriologie by Dr. Sorin Sonea and Dr. Maurice Panisset] intelligent, but non-sentient super-organism able to resist antibiotics

pechavy: [Big Planet by Jack Vance] sluggish, yellow-furred sheep-sized animal from the Big Planet

pelgrane: [Rhialto by Jack Vance] subdyvolt with white fangs, clawed hands, black horn, hard leathery gargoyle-like body, great hatchet-like beak, leering eyes but without speech

pfugux: [Ghost-Walker by Barbara Hambly] herding animal from Midgwis (Elcidar Beta III)

phog: [“Phog” by Poul Anderson] scummy, stinking, deadly gaseous creature from Phoebus system

phoenix: [Greek] bird with yellow neck, red-purple body, blue-with-rose tail, large plume that hatches egg by self-cremation, see benu, fêng-huang

picdar: [La Découverte de L'Empire de Cantahar by De Varennes de Mondasse] green, bear-sized, creature with white spots, leopard-like head, hunted though dangerous from Cantahar Island

pifflosaur: [Dr. Doolittle and the Secret Lake by Hugh Lofting, piffle + -saur] large, long-necked, herbivorous, long-tailed, short-legged dinosaur from No-Man's-Land

pigator: [pig + alligator] aquatic carnivorous sauroid with cloven hooves and cartilaginous snout

pigoose: [pig + goose] griffinoid with longish neck, short, pointed beak and cloven hooves

pililli: [Mémoires De Sir George Wallop by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis] blue and red dove from Aprilis, New Britain Islands

plantimal: [Blackhawk series] 21-meter long plant-like creature with mossy body, 4 thin legs, 3-toed feet, frog-like head, 6 tentacles with twin end-tendrils

platybelodon: [“shovel-tusk”] elephant-ancestor with broad blade-like lower teeth

plicha: [Mémoires De Sir George Wallop by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis] friendly nightingale from Aprilis, New Britain Islands

poa: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] 30-meter long river-dragon with translucent flesh from Lemuria

polarcat: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen trading cards] of polar caps from planet Ex

polutan: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] short, cute biped with dark mournful eyes, ornate feathery crown of Parramat archepelago, Senisran

pongoid: ape-like animal, see apt, corgodrill, dahara, gorillasaur, gundark, Ximbo ape

poochie: [“Lair of the Grimalkin” by G. H. Irwin] feathered serpent

poro: [“The Pathways of Desire” by Ursula K. LeGuin] food animal from Yirdo

porcinoid: pig-like animal, see basto, blope, frankenswine, horswine, targ

poro: [“The Pathways of Desire” by Ursula K. LeGuin] creature that looks like fanged hotdog from Yirdo

porpuss: [porpoise + puss] small cetacean with catfish whisker-like barbels

poulp: [Vingt Mille Liéues Sous les Mers by Jules Verne] 7-meter long cuttlefish-like cephalopoid with 8 suckered tentacles, large green eyes, parrot-like beak

power-cat: [“Friday's Child” by D. C. Fontana] brick-red, brown bear-sized felinoid with golden eyes, short tail, brown back spines, fast as cheetah, able to throw a 200-volt charge 6 meters, from Kohath (Capella IV), alpha Auriga system

praxa: [The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] partially organic, partially gaseous greenish cloud with luminous core that eats eyes

printer: [Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick] creature from Plowman's planet sought by the invisible Glimmung

pronghorn moose: [“Unification” by Rick Berman and Michael Pillar] moose-like ruminant with pronged horns, noted for loud, horrible call from Bardakia

pushmi-pullyu: [The Story of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting] shy, tailless, two-headed creature like both gazelle and chamois

pudamef: [The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp] 6-legged reptilian adapted to cold from Krishna, tau Ceti system (see shan)

pyralli: [aka pyrotocone, Inventorum Natura by Pliny the Elder] dracoid with insectoidal wings that lives in and feeds on fire from Pyrallis Island

pyropod: [The Reefs of Space by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson] agressive squid-like omnivore from the Reefs of Space

quadrumanous: [Space Family Robinson: Lost is Space series] 2.4-meter tall pongoid with one eye, large mouth, shaggy brown hair, 3-toed feet and 4 arms from Alpha 34

radiovore: [“Just Deserts” by Michael Jan Friedman] radiation-eating creature that visited Utalabria

Radon: [(pte)ra(no)don, aka Rodan] 100-tonne dracoid with 150-meter wingspan, chest spikes, able to fly at supersonic speeds, feeds on 6-meter long insects

rainbird: [Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick] lowtide form of dimorph from Miranda, Prospero system whose hightide form is the sparrowfish

rakazzak:[“Ewoks” series] 3-meter tall arachnoid steed from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

rammerhorn: [The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg] top predator -- with drakken -- from the waterworld Hydros

rancor: [Star War VI: Return of the Jedi by James Kahn] 5-meter tall carnivorous biped sauroid with long arms, long fangs, long and sharp claws

rastipod: [“Progress” by Peter Allan Fields] carnivorous variety not as graceful as herbivorous from Bajor

razorbeast: [“Rascals” by Ward Botsford, Diana Dru Botsford and Michael Pillar , “Imaginary Friend” by Jean Louise Matthias, Ronald Wilkerson and Richard Filegel] huge, brown-furred creature with large spiny wings noted for jumping from Tarkass

remorae: [Dreadnaught] suckerfish-like from Proxima (beta Centauri) system

reptilicus: [Reptilicus by Dean Owen] 30-meter long, snake-like creature with armored plates, 2 vestigial hands, wings, able to spit green poison

revavuaa: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] purple ichthoid with feathery gill from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

rhadari: [Kane's world series by Michael Moorcock as Edward Powys Bradbury] 1.8-meter tall, 3.6-meter long carnivore with wide toothy mouth, claws, viscous crystalline “flesh”

rheti: [Kane's world series by Michael Moorcock as Edward Powys Bradbury] rodentoid the size of a half-grown elephant

rhedosaur: ["The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"] 15-meter tall quadrupedal amphibian with toxic blood

rhinokey: [Wuz series by Douglas Hutchison] animal both rhinoceras-like and monkey-like

riding croc: ["The Blue Giraffe" by L. Sprague de Camp] mutant long-legged crocodile

ritoodolorum: [First Lensman by E. E. Smith] ferocious 6-legged tiger-like felinoid from Aldebaran (alpha Tauri) II

roadkill: ["Uncharted Territory" by Connie Willis] extraordinarily sedentary animal from Boohte

rodentoid: rodent-like animal, casteroid, gnar, hive-rat, horeb, muskrattler, rheti, ulsio, wooker

rork: [Rork! by Avram Davidson] monstrous, elusive feeder on valuable redwing plant

rugfish: [Big World by Jack Vance] ichthoid whose skin is used for sandal leather

rukh: [1001 Arabian Nights] huge bird with 2 horns, 4 back humps, feeds elephants to its young

ruvf: [“The Altar of Redemption” by Anne Laurie Logan] roaring felininoid(?) of the jauneans

rycrit: [Star Wars Sourcebook by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith] bovine from Ryloth, Jedi galaxy

rykor: [Barzoom series by EdgarRice Burroughs] humanoid but without head, used as steed by Kaldane from Bazoom

ryth: [Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs] Amiocap Island cave bear

sailor: [“The Winged Dreamers” by Jennifer Guttridge] furry brown sausage with bright amber eyes, flat furry face, 3-clawed toe per foot from Durban's world

sand bat: ["The Empath" by Joyce Muskat] Manark IV predator that appears as inanimate rock crystals until it attacks

sand sloth: ["Droids" series] rhino-like, muskox-like beast of burden from Annoo, Jedi galaxy

sarlacc: [“Return of the Jedi” by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas] undersand dwelling 30-meter carnivore with many feeding tentacles around it 2.4-meter mouth

sauroid: lizard-like animal, see alligoator, bandersnatch, baragon, dirosaur, dogator, gatortoise, Gojira, gorgosaur, grakka, gryf, Guilala, knife-kite, lagardo, lossine, menigirri, nashtah, nightlizard, ophiacodon, pigator, rancor, sea lizard, scarpia, slik't, sphexe, tove, woodwoose

scargan: [Warrior of Llarn, Theif of Llarn by Gardner F. Fox] sharp-clawed, half-tonne furry, white spheroid

scarpia: [King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pourelle] deadly warm-blooded scorpion-like sauroid from Makassar

scizzorback: [“The Hunting” by Doris Beetem] lithe, brown herd animal from Rheingeld

scotura: [“Knives” by Lawrence G. DiTillio] Centauri “silent beast”

scramaloupe: [Space Trap by Monica Hughes] rare mammoth-like animal with red and grey stripes from Nakhan

screer: [“The Book of Ptath” by A. E. Van Vogt] voracious 2.4-meter bird with 4.8-meter wingspan used as both steed and weapon from Gonwonlane

scylla: [Windhaven by George R. R. Martin] predatory sea creature from Windhaven

seagle: [sea gull + eagle] coastal orinthoid with long wings, webbed feet, hooked beak and sharp eyesight

seaweed shark: {“Simpsons” series] rare vegetarian shark that eats seaweed

seedis: [“Belly of the Beast”] “mythical” planet-eater said to return to Savion every 6270 years

Seesar: [“Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster” by Jun Fukuda] 120-meter humanoid with long golden fur on head, shoulders and sides, but otherwise blue-scaled, with floppy elephantine ears, blue-tipped forehead horn, red eyes able to shoot destructive beams

sehlat: [“Yesterday” by Dorothy Fontana] pointy-eared, fanged pig-snouted beast like both bear and bison

Serpent: [“Star Wars” series by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson] 14-meter mottled serpent controlled via ultrasonics by the Serpent Masters to enslave, among others, Tanith Shire's world, Jedi galaxy

shai-hulud: [Dune by Frank Herbert] aka sandworm, 400-meter long, 100-meter wide silvery-gray worm-like undersand dweller with thousands of carbo-silica teeth from Arrakis (Canopus or alpha Carinae III)

shan: [The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp] 6-legged reptilian from Krishna, tau Ceti system (see pudamef)

shantak: [“The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft] nightmarish bird from Inquanok

sharkon: [“Flash Gordon” series] shark-ichthoid with long, barbed tail, narwhal-like horn, large flippers from Mongo

shasos: [“Frog in the Mountains” by R. A. Lafferty] eagle-condor hunter in the mountains from Paravata

sheefla: [Ghost-Walker by Barbara Hambly] small, quick predator from Midgwis (Elcidar Beta III)

shelath: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] stinger that nests in yollow-brown vines from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

shellmouth: [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson] 50-centimeter clam-faced, humpbacked sea creature with 6 short tentacles (2 for feeding), double-pupilled eyes

sheot: [The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues by Harry Harrison] ruminant like tusked sheep or goat, large enough to ride from Liokukae

shockwraith: [A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewsky] noted for sinew which is used along the starworms by Sharer wormrunners to secure rafts from Shora the Ocean Moon of Valedon

shrowk: [A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay] many-legged with serpentine body, spiked head, bat-like wings from Tormance, Arcturus system

shuttlewren: [“Uncharted Territory” by Connie Willis] perverse animal from Boohte

shynph: [“Oomphel in the Sky” by H. Beam Piper] arrowhead-horned jumper from Gettler system

sificligh: [“In the Walls of Eryx” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling] wriggling maggot-like insectoid

silian: [Barzoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] slimy sea serpent from Barzoom

silicate: [“Island of Terror” by EdwardAndrew Mann and Allan Ramsen] chitinous oblong mound with starfish-like base, thick grabbing tentacles, feeding on bones via microscopic punctures

sinek: [“Frog on the Mountain” by R. A. Lafferty] cat-lion game animal from Paravata mountains

sinha: [“shadow Lord” by Laurence Yep] sabre-toothed white “samari panther” from Angira

sith: [Barzoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] Hereford-sized hornet-like insectoid with poisonous stinger from Barzoom

sithar: [Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin] creature like both lion and muskox from Sarpeidon, beta Niobe system

skarat: [The Dirdir by Jack Vance] large, quick black insectoid that exhales foul odor, yet is nevertheless used in recipes of the Carabas

skeep: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] river animal from Hraggellon (Duruos II)

skoffin: [Icelandic] vixen-like felinoid with deadly basilisk-like stare

skorah: [“In the Walls from Eryx” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling] carnivore

slashback: [Uhura's Song by Janet Kagon] sabretooth tiger-like felinoid from Sivao

sleen: [Gor series by John F. Lange, Jr., as John Norman] tireless, savage 6-clawed creature used to track runaway slaves

slik't: [Double, Double by Michael Jan Friedman] sauroid from T'Nufo nr. Romulan Empire

slimebug: [“Shadow Lord” by Laurence Yep] slimy insectoid from Angira

slime devil: [“The Trouble with Tribbles” by David Gerrold, The World of the Federation by Shane Johnson] 1.2-meter carnivorous amphibian with 7 horns, 4 segmented limbs, large splayed toes, large blow hole

slime worm: [Gor series by John F. Lange, Jr., as John Norman] long, eyeless worm-like scavenger companion to the Golden Beetle

slitch: [“Eyes” by Lawrence G. DiTillio] animal native to planet Orion

slith: [Star Rangers by Andre Norton] dangerous cave beast from Falthar

slithis: [“Spawn of the Slithis” by Stephen Traxler] dark green humpbacked predator with large, hairless gumdrop-shaped head, webbed claws, suckerfish-like mouth, dorsal fin, feeding tentacles

sloord: [The Sword of Lankor by Howard L. Cory] swift, stealthy pack animal from Lankor

slorg: [The Wizard of Lemuria by Lin Carter] pallid-scaled snake with hairless, green-eyed woman's face, rretractable fangs

slugoat: [slug + goast] coastal bimorph with four legs and omnivorous appetite as adult and slow-moving and mollusc-like as larva

slugull: [slug + gull] coastal bimorph with long wings and slightly curved beak as adult and slow-moving and mollusc-like as larva

smur: [The Dirdir by Jack Vance] fearsome, sinuous semi-reptilian from Boundary Wood, Carabas

snape: [Earth in Twilight by Doris Piserchia] one-eyed, soft and furry jungle-dwelling mutant

snapper: [“The Moment of the Storm”] green feathered reptilian with armored head, 3 horns under 3 eyes, nose-horn, half-meter legs, 3.5-meter tail, long sharp sword-like teeth, able to run as fast as a greyhound, swing tail like a sandbag from Tierra del Cygnus, Cygnus

snarl: [The Barber of Aldebaran by William Moy Russell] exotic lifeform

snork: [Moumeikko ja pyrstötähti by Tove Jansson] small, soft-furred, blue-eyed, short-snouted, short-tailed hibernating biped able to change color with emotions

snow dragon: [“Flash Gordon” series] bear-like dracoid with long neck, beaver-like tail, serpentine head from Mongo

snow ghost: [Motie series by Larry Niven] rare, furry cobra-like serpentinoid from Maxroy's Purchase

sofor: [Arthur Porges] animal with very powerful malordorous defense from Tartaglia

somouga: [Histoire des Sevarambes by Denis Veiras] white-furred bear from Australe

space-cow: [“Country Doctor” by William Morrison] 90-meter 6-eyed, red amorph with 9-meter mouth, tadpole-like young from Ganymede

spaceling: [The Reefs of Space by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson] seal-like with jet-less propulsion

space slug: “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut] 900-meter silicon-based, worm-like asteroid-dweller that reproduces by splitting

sparrowfish: [Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick] hightide form of dimorph from Miranda, Prospero system whose lowtide form is rainbird

spectrox bat: [“Caves of Androzani” by Robert Holme] cheropteroid from Androzani Minor, Sirius system, source of spectrox, the life extending drug, its milk is only known antidote to raw guano poisoning

sphexe: [“Exploration Team” by Murray Leinster] huge inimical sauroid from Loren II

spiddle: [Nick and Glimmung by Philip K. Dick] creature from Plowman's planet

spieltier: [“The Lady Who Sailed the Soul” by Cordwainer Smith] shapeshifting pet

Spigas: [“Son of Godzilla”] 1.2-meter tall arachnoid with poisonous spear-like tongue, able to spin white webbing very fast

splacknuck: [Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver] graceful, elegant human-sized mammal

spoo: [“Midnight on the Firing Line”, “The Geometry of Shadows” by J. Michael Straczynski] food animal from Narn

spurgeon: [Blue World by Jack Vance] fearless creature from the Blue World

squirlon: [“Flash Gordon” series] flying squirrel-like creature with madness-inducing bite from Mongo

squonk: ugly creature noted for its weeping cry from Pennsylvanian hemlock forests

ssu ling: [Chinese] generic term for either ch'i-lin, fêng-huang, tortoise or dragon (lung, kiu-lung, yü-lung)

starworm: [A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewsky] noted for use with shockwraith sinew by Sharer wormrunners to secure raft from Shora the Ocean Moon of Valedon

steam frog: [Jets*Rockets*Spacemen trading cards] giant, high-temperature adapted batrachian with long-clawed flippers

stuff: addictively sweet white amorphous parasite that eats insides out of its eater, can also form tentacles and smother prey

stylax: [“The Gift of Gab” by Jack Vance] food worm for dekabrachs (“deks”)

Styphalian bird: bird with brass beak, wings, talons, able to fire feathers like arrows from Lake Stympalis, Arcadia

sungwas: [“Droids” series] large wolf-like, weasel-like caninoid from Bodgen bogs, Jedi galaxy

supercow: [A Planet for Texans by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire] 12-meter tall, 15-tonne bovine from New Texas (Capella or alpha Aurigae IV)

swift grazer: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom] dangerous ground-dweller from Pandora

swince: [“Seed of Reason” by Daniel Hatch] arboreal woofer from Chamal, imitated by shapeshifting Chamalians

swooper: [The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson] 4.5-meter long flying predatory planimal from Merari (Phylos II)

swordbird: [The Integral Trees by Larry Niven] dangerous predator from Smoke Ring, LeVoy's star system

taho: [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] cave lion domesticated by Tandar Islanders

tandor: [Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs] mammoth from Amiocap Island, Pellucidar

tandozare: [Pellucidar series by EdgarRice Burroughs] 3-meter long-necked sirenian with fanged, snake-like head

tarag: [Tanar of Pellucidar by EdgarRice Burroughs] sabre-tooth tiger from Amiocap Island, tamed by Tandar Islanders

targ: [“Where No One Has Gone Before” by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves] furry porcinoid with forehead-horn and 3 back spikes

targath: [The Goddess of Ganymede and Pursuit on Ganymede by Michael D. Resnick and Donald M. Grant] carnivorous 2.4-meter bird sighted only in radar wavelengths from Thane's moon

targhee: [“The Perfect Mate” by Gary Perconte and Michael Pillar] noted for loud braying

targo: [The Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs] 8-legged arachnoid with long black hair, yellow spots over eyes, that spins tarel, vulnerable only in small brain from Napier's world

tarlow: {Memoires De Sir George Wallop by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis, Hannah Hewitt by Charles Dibdin] pheasant-sized black and white bird from Aprilis, New Britain Islands

tarn: [Tarnsmen of Gor by John F. Lange, Jr., as John Norman] 2.1-meter ornithoid with 8.5-meter wingspan, fierce curved beak from Gor (black -- nightfling, white -- winter flying, multicolored -- warriors', greenish-brown -- wild)

tauntaun: [Star Trek V: The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut] swift, surefooted pack animal and steed with thick gray fur from Hoth, Jedi galaxy

tektite: [The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo] red or blue quadrupedal arachnoid from Hyrule

terakuk: [“Desert Passage”] one-horned goat-like food animal from Teroth desert

teratorn: [“monster-bird”] Pleistocene bird with 3.6-meter wingspan

thaptor; [Callisto series by Lin Carter] wingless, 4-legged orthinoid steed, but unruly like camel

tharban; [Carson Napier series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] hyena-like caninoid, puma-sized with red and yellow stripes running lengthwise from Napier's world

thai: [pl. thraiin, The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood] wolverine-like creature from 128 Trianguli system

tharg; [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] giant elk from Pellucidar

tharlarion: [Gor series John F. Lange, Jr., as John Norman] sauroid steed used in both swamps and deserts

thidpar: [Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] treacherous pterodactyl from Pellucidar

thoat: [Barzoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] octopodal steed, 3-meters at shoulder, steered telepathically

threadworm: [“Flight on Titan” by Stanley G. Weinbaum] from Nivia colony, Titan

throg: [The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney] 2-D food animal from Astrians, Planiverse

Tiberian bat: “The Undiscovered Country”] charopteran noted for sticking together

tichorhinus: [La Citadelle des glaces by Paul Alperine] 2-horned rhinoceros ancestor found in salty marshes from Erikraudebyg

tiger-crab: [The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] black and white, Newfoundland dog-sized crustacean with tiger-like stripes

tigerilla: [tiger + gorilla] centaur-like creature with head and arms of gorilla and stripes, legs and tail from tiger

tigrelis: [La Découverte de L'Empire de Cantahar by De Varennes de Mondasse] deer-like equinoid with striped coat and white crest between ears used for drawing carriage from Canthahar

tigron: [“Flash Gordon” series] tiger-like felinoid with large fangs and curved forehead horn from Mongo

tingler: [“The Tingler” by Robb White] centipede-like with 18 legs pinchers, that feeds on fear via spinal cord dissolved by screaming

titanosaur: [“The Terror of Mecha-godzilla” by Yuhiko Takayama] 150-meter tall amphibious biped with long neck, slender horse-like head with duckbill, headfin, fin-like ears, antennae, dorsal fin, long fish-like tail

tlillning: [Mushroom Planet series by Eleanor Cameron] cat-sized, silvery-haired, long-eared equine from Basidium

Tlînian tiger: [A First Encyclopedia of Tlîn, “Tlîn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges] transparent tiger-like felinoid from Tlîn

toricle: [“The Substandard Sardines” by Jack Vance] animal from Cordova

tormagon: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] one of animals talked to by Onhla from Starside, Hraggellon (Dunuos II)

tornok: [“Seed of Reason” by Daniel Hatch] swampswimmer from Chamal, imitated by shapeshifting Chamalians

toucanary: [toucan + canary] small ornithoid with brightly grren or yellow-colored plumage, very large beak

tove: [Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll] lithe, slimy badger-like burrowing sauroid also corkscrew-like

tracehound: “The Forsaken” by Jim Trombetta] enthusiastic Wanoni predator

tragor: [The Goddess of Ganymede and Pursuit on Ganymede by Michael . Resnick and Donald M. Grant] giant carnivorous bird from Thane's moon

tribble: [“The Trouble with Tribbles” by David Gerrold] furball born pregnant, troublesome in captivity

trompa: [Game Chambers of Questal by Robert Kern] 3-meter tall, massive, ferocious, deadly, long-armed biped with sharp clawed paws, thick fur, 2 spiral horns from Jedi galaxy

tubetucker: [The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom] dangerous ground-dweller from Pandora

tukah: [“In the Walls of Eryx” by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling] flying creature

tulk: [Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy] animal bristling with sharp horns

tumnor: [Star Wars: Dark Empire by Tom Veith and Cam Kennedy] Ixll-eating flying predator from upper atmosphere of Da Soocha and its moons, Jedi galaxy

turby: [Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin] small ichthoid from Serd, Ninety Isles, Inmost Sea, Earthsea noted for its oil

turtodon: [“Flash Gordon” series] huge, fanged chelonoid from Mongo

tytistu: [“Passage” by Joe Haldeman] pale horse-sized egg-laying sauroid herded by colonists from Obelobel

ulsio: [Barzoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] fierce, unlovely Airedale-sized rodentoid

ulth: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] white-furred 3-meter tall ursinoid from Lemuria

uluritei: [The Howling Stones by A. D. Foster] glider from Parramat archepelago, Senisran

unicorndeer: [“The Winged Dreamers” by Jennifer Guttridge] one-horned deer-like ruminant from Durban's world

urdur: [Monster in the Maze by Jeffrey Lord] 7.5-meter serpent-like creature from dimension X with tyrannosaur-like head, scythe-shaped claws on short powerful legs, armor plating, cold-blooded, bred by Casta the sorcerer

urreep: [The Sword of Lankor by Howard L. Cory] swamp-dwelling carnivore with 2 fiece-jaws heads, bulging eyes, crab-like pinchers, tough leather hide

ursodile: [bear-crocodile, “Flash Gordon” series] amphibian with serpentine torso and head, powerful claws from Mongo

vandar: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] 3-meter long black jungle lion-like felinoid from Lemuria

Varan: [“Varan the Unbelievable” by Shinichi Sekizawa] 90-meter tall amphibian, usually bipedal, with long thick neck, small head, white spiral horns, large arms, thin back shell

vastodon: [Callisto series by Lin Carter] huge boar-elephant from Thantor

vipermine: [viper + ermine] weazel-like predator with black-tipped tail, brown fur, venomous fangs

vitha: [Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin] large-chested, shy creature like otter and goat, 2.4 meters when on hind legs from Sarpeidon, beta Niobe system

vlilseena: [Mushroom Planet series by Eleanor Cameron] fungus-like animal from Basidium

volcano mutant: [Hawkman series] 15-meter long dracoid with snake-like body, 4 claws, wings, able to shoot lightning from fingers, exhale fire

vornskr: [Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn] long-legged, nocturnal quadruped with vague-ly dog-like muzzle, sharp teeth, poisonous whip-like tail, semi-tamed by tail-cutting

vulturchin: [vulture + urchin] carrion-eating ornithoid with hooked beak, clacareous shell coveredin long spikes

vulturmine: [vulture + ermine] weazel-like carrion-eater with black-tipped tail, powerful beak and brown fur except on neck and head

vykar: [Yesterday's Son by A. C. Crispin] horse-like creature with nose-horn and camel-like locomotion from Sarpeidon, beta Niobe system

wampa: [Star Trek V: The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut, Prophets of the Dark Side by Paul and Hollace Davids] tundra cave-dwelling, white-furred, 2-meter tall biped with yellow eyes, sharp claws and teeth that capture prey alive for larder from Hoth, Jedi galaxy

wandrella: [Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster] huge, cream-colored worm-like omnivore with-brown-slashes, eye-spots, sharp black teeth, underside locomotion suckers

water-elephant: [Burmese] elephant as small as a mouse, but strong enough to threaten elephants upon whose brains it feeds

webweaver: [Han Solo and the Lost Legacy by Brian Daley] large, deadly, lower-level arachnoid from Kashyyyk, Jedi galaxy

welcome-homer: [Uhura's Song by Janet Kagon] arboreal throwers from Sivao

wentelteefje: [“curl-up” by M. C. Escher] 6-legged segmented creature able to curl up into wheel

werebot: [“True Names” by Vernor Vinge, Phaze series by Piers Anthony] human-robot bimorph

werje: [Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick] wrinkled umbrella-like leathery glider with claws and hollow eye sockets from Plowman's planet

Wharton's Swamp monster: [“Slime” by Joseph Payne Brennan] gray-black voracious amorph speed from ocean floor able to move at nightmarish that eats frogs, snakes, mammals, Humans

white hunter: [“Grandpa” by James Schmitz] large, herding shark-like ichthoid from Sutang

widdlefly: [“Protective Mimicry” by Alguis Bulgess] large biting insectoid from Dened (delta Capricornis) XI

wiggle-worm: [“The Chosen People” by Robert Randall] young hugl, not affected by edris powder

wogneer: [“Allegience” by Richard Manning and Hans Beimer] life-form from Ordek nebula

wompat: [“Chain of Command” by Frank Abatemarco] pet from Cardassia

woodwoose: [“Dear Mom” by Stephen C. Fisher] man-sized blue-black sauroid biped with beak and no arms from La Paz

wooker: [The Cry of the Onlies by Judy Klass] large, furry, rank-smelling arboreal rodentoid with clammy, spongy, clingy toes from Boaco IV

womp rat: [Star Wars IV: A New Hope by George Lucas] vicious, hairy 3-meter long rodentoid that attacks in packs from Tatooine, Jedi galaxy

wraith: [“Queen of Air and Darkness” by Poul Anderson] cell swarm from Roland

xat: [The Sword of Lankor by Howard L. Cory] soft-padding animal from Lankor

Ximbo ape: [“Planet of the Knob-Heads” by Stanton A. Coblentz] “brainless” pongoid

xuth: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] “unthinkably huge” slimy, gelatinous, pain-insensitive worm from Lemuria

yathrib: [Callisto series by lin Carter] fierce tiger-like dracoid with emerald scalesfading to tawny yellow on underside, back spikes, lashing, snake-like tail, bird-like claws from Thanator

yayax: [“Ewoks” series] fierce panther-like felinoid from Endor's moon, Jedi galaxy

yeki: [The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp] tiger-sized, 6-legged mink-like animal from Krishna, tau Ceti system

yelk: [Helliconia trilogy by Brian Aldiss, see biyelk] creature from Helliconia, Batalix-Freyr system

yembla: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] large, purple, flying arachnoid from Lemuria

yukari: [“The Yukari Inmprint”] small but very prolific pod-laying shapeshifter that assumes the form of its “mother” the first creature it sees upon hatching

ysalamiri: [Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn] 50-centimeter arboreal salamander-like furry creature with sessile claws that grow into branches, noted for Force-immunity

zah: [“Liline, the Moon Girl” by Edmond Hamilton] low-gee dracoid with black scaly wings with 12-meter wingspan, barrel-shaped body, long neck, turtle-like head, red eyes, short thick legs, webbed feet

zamph: [Thongor series by Lin Carter] yellow-fanged, 3-tonne voracious boar-like porcinoid with forehead horn, boney neck shield from Lemuria

zawyi: [“They Live Forever” by Lloyd Biggle,Jr.] milk animal of the Rualis

zebrhino: [zebra + rhinoceras] rhinoceras-like equinoid with nose horn and zebra stripes

zell: [Callisto series by Lin Carter] variant lajazell, small winged sauroid from Thanator desert

zeton: [The Goddess of Ganymede and Pursuit on Ganymede by Michael D. Resnick and Donald M. Grant] 7.5-meter tall brontosaur-like red-orange creature with 6 forelegs, 2 hindlegs, thin prehensile 6-meter tail from Thane's moon

zhar-ptitza: [Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell] purple bird with golden neck, red and blue tail from Acaire forest, Poictesme

zhoumy: [“When In the Course” by H. Beam Piper] yak-like ruminant from Freya

zitidar: [Barzoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] large herbivorous beast of burden from Barzoom

zorat: [Carson Napier series by Edgar Rice Burroughs] zebra-like steed with bovine head from Napier's world

zotuane: [Mémoires De Sir George Wallop by Pierre Chevalier Duplessis] fox-like creature from Aprilis, New Britain Islands