List of Uplift Universe extraterrestrials
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A list of fictional extraterrestrial species in the Uplift Universe series of novels by David Brin.
When formally referenced a species' name includes all of its surviving patrons and clients. The prefix "ul-" indicates a client and the prefix "ab-" indicates a patron. Therefore, for instance, the species Dolphin is formally Dolphin-ab-Human. Humans, in turn, are formally Human-ul-Chimpanzee-ul-Dolphin. Among powerful clans species names can become quite involved.
- Acceptor (ab-Tandu-ab-Nght6)
- Bi-Gle
- Brothers of the Night (ab-Nighthunter)
- Brma (ab-Krallnith-ul-Caltmour)
- Bururalli (ab-Nahalli)
- Buyur (ul-Tunnuctyur)
- Caltmour (ab-Brma-ab-Krallnith-ul-Tymbrimi)
- Chimpanzee (ab-Human)
- Dog (ab-Human)
- Dolphin (ab-Human)
- Drooli (ul-G'Kek)
- Episiarch (ab-Tandu-ab-Nght6) - a race with a powerful talent for imposing their will upon reality itself.
- F'ruthian
- Foruni
- Forski (ab-Soro-ab-Hul-ab-Puber)
- G'Kek (ab-Drooli)
- Garthling/Gorilla (ab-Thennanin-ab-Wortl-ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon)
- Gello (ab-Pila-ab-Kisa-ab-Soro-ab-Hul-ab-Puber)(Sundiver says the Gello are the clients of the Pila, but Startide Rising says they are the the first clients of the Soro the Patronymics here are for Sundiver's explanation)
- Gl'kahesh
- Glavers (ab-Tunnuctyur)
- Glououvis
- Gooksyu (ul-Gubru)
- Gubru (ab-Gooksyu-ul-Kwackoo-ul-Okukoo)
- Guldingar
- Guthatsa (ul-Hoon)
- Hoon (ab-Guthatsa-ul-Rousit)
- Hul (ab-Puber-ul-Soro)
- Human (ul-Chimpanzee-ul-Dolphin-ul-Dog) [ul-Kiqui?]
- Incrementor (ab-Tandu)
- J'8lek
- Jophur (ab-Poa) - originally the pacifistic traeki (non-capitalized), a race composed of semi-sentient individual 'rings' which stack to form a fully sentient - and non-individualistic - entity. The innovation of 'master rings' added the concept of "I" to their stacks and transformed the traeki into Jophur (capitalized).
- Jouourouou
- Kanten (ab-Linten-ab-Siqul-ul-Nish)
- Karrank% (% pronounced as a double glottal stop)
- Kiqui [ab-Human?]
- Kisa (ab-Soro-ab-Hul-ab-Puber-ul-Pila)
- Klennath
- Klesh
- Klick-Klick (ab-Synthian)
- Komahd
- Kosh (ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon-ul-Wortl)
- Krallnith (ul-Brma)
- Kwackoo (ab-Gubru-ab-Gooksyu)
- Le'4-2vo
- Linten (ab-Siqul-ul-Kanten)
- Luber (ul-Puber) [also known as Lethani]
- Mellin
- Mrgh'4luargi
- Muhurn8
- Nahalli (ul-Bururalli)
- Nght6 (ul-Tandu)
- Nighthunter (ul-Brothers of the Night)
- Nish (ab-Kanten-ab-Linten-ab-Siqul)
- Oailie
- Okukoo (ab-Gubru)
- Olumimin (ab-Thennanin-ab-Wortl-ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon)
- Oulomin
- P'ort'l
- P'un m'ang
- Paha (ab-Soro-ab-Hul-ab-Puber)
- Paimin (ab-Thennanin-ab-Wortl-ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon)
- Pargi
- Pee'oot
- Pila (ab-Kisa-ab-Soro-ab-Hul-ab-Puber-ul-Pring)
- Poa (ul-Jophur) [ul-Traeki?]
- Por'n'aths
- Pring (ab-Pila-ab-Kisa-ab-Soro-ab-Hul-ab-Puber)
- Progenitors - the fabled "first race", believed to be the only race to have been able to uplift themselves to spacefaring sentience, and started the chain of uplift.
- Pthaca
- Puber (ul-Hul)
- Puntictin
- Qheuens (ab-Zhosh)
- Rammin (ab-Thennanin-ab-Wortl-ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon)
- Rosh (ab-Tothtoon-ul-Kosh)
- Rothen
- Rousit (ab-Hoon-ab-Guthatsa)
- Ruguggi
- Serentini
- Se'een (ab-Synthian)
- Siqul (ul-Linten)
- Skiano
- Solarians
- Soro (ab-Hul-ab-Puber-ul-Gello-ul-Forski-ul-Paha-ul-Kisa)
- Sstienn
- Synthian (ul-Wazoon-ul-Se'een-ul-Klick-Klick)
- Talpu'ur
- Tandu (ab-Nght6-ul-Acceptor-ul-Episiarch-ul-Incrementor)
- Tarseuh
- Thennanin (ab-Wortl-ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon-ul-Paimin-ul-Rammin-ul- Ynnin-ul-Olumimin-ul-Garthling)
- Tothtoon (ul-Rosh)
- Tourmaj
- Touvint
- traeki [ab-Poa or ab-Jophur] — A communal organism composed of a stack of sap rings, each with a different function. This pacifist race was reengineered by the Oailie (as requested by the traeki's Poa patrons) into the conquesting Jophur, except for a fugitive group that hid on the planet Jijo.
- Tunictguppit
- Tunnuctyur (ab-Buyur-ul-Glaver)
- Tuvallians
- Tymbrimi (ab-Caltmour-ab-Brma-ab-Krallnith-ul-Tytlal)
- Tytlal (ab-Tymbrimi-ab-Caltmour-ab-Brma-ab-Krallnith) Non-Uplifted form known as "noor" on the planet Jijo.
- Urs
- Varhisties
- Vriiilh
- Wazoon (ab-Synthian)
- Wortl (ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon-ul-Thennanin)
- Xappish (ab-Xatinni)
- Xatinni (ul-Xappish)
- Ynnin (ab-Thennanin-ab-Wortl-ab-Kosh-ab-Rosh-ab-Tothtoon)
- Z'Tang
- Zang (hydrogen breathers, hence not members of the Civilization of Five Galaxies)
- Zhosh (ul-Qheuens)
- Zitlths
- Zugh
- Zyu8
