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Description
Allicorniforms: discussed in detial here

Shedu: shirt-faced, bearded winged bovines.

Winged Bulls: long-faces, beardless winged bovines.

Antelope Pegasi: resemble the alleged accounts of Ethiopian pegasi, having long antelope-like horns.

Rudolphs: not in fact closely related to flying reindeer. Although both species are ptereons. They have bioluminescence.

White Stags: close relatives of rudolphs, they have an eerie white or slightly bluish glow.

Erectiptereons: bipedal ptereons. Because D&D, also they kind-of make sense. Maybe.

Flying Reindeer: drab, cold-dwelling ptereons.

Green Ptereons: because they're supposed to be green? They are native to tropical habitats.

Eoptereons: missing link.

Jackalopes: flightless antlered long-eared herbivores with a hopping gait. Surprisingly not closely related to easter bunnies.

Skvander: flying long-eared herbivore with a hopping gait but no antlers. Because obviously such a creature should have antlers.

Wolpletinger: both a reasonable name and body-plan. Ears, wings, hopping, antlers and small tusks for good measure. They are the more primitive relatives of Jackalopes and Skvanders.

Pegasi: the animals this whole-group is judged around. They are horses with wings. Because of evolution, they technically have horse-feathers.

Proto-Pegasi: the extinct somewhat ancestral clade to pegasi.

Lembuswanas: flying pseudo-elephants. Really they are flying tapirs. They want our fluids.

Flying Shovel-tuskers: because parallel evolution beyatches!

Flying Dinotheria: like a flying elephant, but someone put the mouth on upside down.

Airaavathas: though the least one-for-one correspondence to it's terrestrial mythical counterpart, the branching "double trunk" and four tusks create a resemblance to the mythical multi-trunked, multi-tusked divine elephant.

Flying Gomphotheres: WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

Flying Pigs: are not flying pigs. They are tiny flying tapirs. Species range in size from 1/4 to 1 meter in length.

Chrysaori: boar-like larger flying tapirs, with metallic iridescent plumage.

Proto-Chrysaori: a fossil group that seems to be the immediate ancestors of modern proboscis bearing avians.

Eo-Chrysaori: the earliest fossil group that diverges from the mutual ancestor of pegasi.

Eo-Pegasi: the most primitive members of the conversantly perissodactyl avians. Because winged horses imply prehistoric winged eohippus'.

Reverse-Griffins: the animal that in it's terrestrial form was conceived when some asshole went "I want a griffin on my crest, but backwards, you know the bird and cat pars flipped". Here they are flightless, completely terrestrial somewhat convergent bird-lynxes. The primary difference is that they have lost their retractable claws in favor of stronger studier talons.

Tamaits: like the reverse-griffins they are short-tailed taloned essentially bird lynxes. They do however retain flight, but are still largely terrestrial.

Qiongqi: large forrest-dwelling predators. Qionggi are known for their distinctive striped plumage. They come in a variety of colorations, most common being orange, white, golden, silver, copper and platinum.

Gynosphinxes: the males have inflatable sacks that they use in mating displays, like prairie chickens. They have the smallest manes of all the leonid winged felines.

Andosphinxes: both sexes are maned, with males having a distinctive "beard" in addition. Unlike most other leonid species they tend to form pair-bonds.

Lamasus: the most prototypically leonid and primitive of the lion-like flying felines the Lamasus have longer, down-covered faces than sphinxes.

Panther-Griffins: larger, arboreal flying felines. They tend to be more generalized than the other larger members of the clade.

Winged Cats: small aerial felines. They are the most primitive and arboreal clade of the group.

Sky-Wolves: large gray, brown or red aerial canines. They tend to form social groups.

Sky-Jackals: medium sized, gracile aerial canines.

Sky-Foxes: these are the smallest and most brightly colored of the aerial canines.

Air-Weasels: knonw form fossil remains. Extinct generalist carnivores, that were probably ancestral to aerial felines and canines.

Sirins: sirins are song-hominids, but unlike their relatives, their vocalizations are in the ultrasonic range. They tend to be nocturnal.

Gamayuns: they have complex vocal mimicry. They tend to live around the edges of forests.

Alkenosts: live near sea-shores. They tend to have a diet of marine animals. They are capable of too-use to assist in their fishing. Like sirins and gamayuns they are good fliers and can travel long distances. Unlike them they tend to be largely solitary.

Sirens: so here I am taking from the speculation around the mythology of the Sirens, being that their wings were useless. They are flightless terrestrial flying hominids. They tend to be organized into small female troops, with solitary, roving males.

Zephyrs: the most, "what you think an angel/winged humanoid" should look like. They are about as intelligent as gorillas or orangutans.

Kinnari: brightly colored ground-dwelling seemingly-humanoid creatures. They form lifelong pair-bonds, but not larger social structures on a permanent scale.

Harpies: more inflatable sacks, now for both sexes. You wanted tits on a bird? Harpies tend to form small troupes of loosely related individuals. I've been thinking about just how uncanny valley I want to go with these guys and their relatives. Suffice it to say they will probably wing up looking rather wrong when I get into detail.

Ape Xaios: long-armed gibbon like winged primate analogues. There are two species the spotted and stripped, with respective plumage on their arms.

Seraphic Angels: they can use all their limbs as wings. They have a strange "triplane" flight configuration not seen in many species.

Cherubic Angels: they are similar to seraphic angels, in that they have multiple wings and absent tails. However like bird xiaos they only have two pairs of wings.

Bird Xaios: utilize four limbs for flight. They along with the so-called angels show an evolutionary trend away fromgrasping appendages and towards more dedication to flight.

Feinaos: protypical winged monkys.

Winged Lemurs: more primitive relatives of winged monkys

Winged-Rodents: the extinct sister-clade of the winged primates.

Winged-Shrews: the primitive form of the bird-mammals.

So one thing I have taken to, for the sake of clarity, is to take the tendency of mythology to just add wings to various creatures and instead have them become flightless and have atrophied wings. This means that on this planet often the winged form is the more "primitive" form and the wingless form is more adapted to a terrestrial niche.

Description
Allicorniforms: discussed in detial here

Shedu: shirt-faced, bearded winged bovines.

Winged Bulls: long-faces, beardless winged bovines.

Antelope Pegasi: resemble the alleged accounts of Ethiopian pegasi, having long antelope-like horns.

Rudolphs: not in fact closely related to flying reindeer. Although both species are ptereons. They have bioluminescence.

White Stags: close relatives of rudolphs, they have an eerie white or slightly bluish glow.

Erectiptereons: bipedal ptereons. Because D&D, also they kind-of make sense. Maybe.

Flying Reindeer: drab, cold-dwelling ptereons.

Green Ptereons: because they're supposed to be green? They are native to tropical habitats.

Eoptereons: missing link.

Jackalopes: flightless antlered long-eared herbivores with a hopping gait. Surprisingly not closely related to easter bunnies.

Skvander: flying long-eared herbivore with a hopping gait but no antlers. Because obviously such a creature should have antlers.

Wolpletinger: both a reasonable name and body-plan. Ears, wings, hopping, antlers and small tusks for good measure. They are the more primitive relatives of Jackalopes and Skvanders.

Pegasi: the animals this whole-group is judged around. They are horses with wings. Because of evolution, they technically have horse-feathers.

Proto-Pegasi: the extinct somewhat ancestral clade to pegasi.

Lembuswanas: flying pseudo-elephants. Really they are flying tapirs. They want our fluids.

Flying Shovel-tuskers: because parallel evolution beyatches!

Flying Dinotheria: like a flying elephant, but someone put the mouth on upside down.

Airaavathas: though the least one-for-one correspondence to it's terrestrial mythical counterpart, the branching "double trunk" and four tusks create a resemblance to the mythical multi-trunked, multi-tusked divine elephant.

Flying Gomphotheres: WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

Flying Pigs: are not flying pigs. They are tiny flying tapirs. Species range in size from 1/4 to 1 meter in length.

Chrysaori: boar-like larger flying tapirs, with metallic iridescent plumage.

Proto-Chrysaori: a fossil group that seems to be the immediate ancestors of modern proboscis bearing avians.

Eo-Chrysaori: the earliest fossil group that diverges from the mutual ancestor of pegasi.

Eo-Pegasi: the most primitive members of the conversantly perissodactyl avians. Because winged horses imply prehistoric winged eohippus'.

Reverse-Griffins: the animal that in it's terrestrial form was conceived when some asshole went "I want a griffin on my crest, but backwards, you know the bird and cat pars flipped". Here they are flightless, completely terrestrial somewhat convergent bird-lynxes. The primary difference is that they have lost their retractable claws in favor of stronger studier talons.

Tamaits: like the reverse-griffins they are short-tailed taloned essentially bird lynxes. They do however retain flight, but are still largely terrestrial.

Qiongqi: large forrest-dwelling predators. Qionggi are known for their distinctive striped plumage. They come in a variety of colorations, most common being orange, white, golden, silver, copper and platinum.

Gynosphinxes: the males have inflatable sacks that they use in mating displays, like prairie chickens. They have the smallest manes of all the leonid winged felines.

Andosphinxes: both sexes are maned, with males having a distinctive "beard" in addition. Unlike most other leonid species they tend to form pair-bonds.

Lamasus: the most prototypically leonid and primitive of the lion-like flying felines the Lamasus have longer, down-covered faces than sphinxes.

Panther-Griffins: larger, arboreal flying felines. They tend to be more generalized than the other larger members of the clade.

Winged Cats: small aerial felines. They are the most primitive and arboreal clade of the group.

Sky-Wolves: large gray, brown or red aerial canines. They tend to form social groups.

Sky-Jackals: medium sized, gracile aerial canines.

Sky-Foxes: these are the smallest and most brightly colored of the aerial canines.

Air-Weasels: knonw form fossil remains. Extinct generalist carnivores, that were probably ancestral to aerial felines and canines.

Sirins: sirins are song-hominids, but unlike their relatives, their vocalizations are in the ultrasonic range. They tend to be nocturnal.

Gamayuns: they have complex vocal mimicry. They tend to live around the edges of forests.

Alkenosts: live near sea-shores. They tend to have a diet of marine animals. They are capable of too-use to assist in their fishing. Like sirins and gamayuns they are good fliers and can travel long distances. Unlike them they tend to be largely solitary.

Sirens: so here I am taking from the speculation around the mythology of the Sirens, being that their wings were useless. They are flightless terrestrial flying hominids. They tend to be organized into small female troops, with solitary, roving males.

Zephyrs: the most, "what you think an angel/winged humanoid" should look like. They are about as intelligent as gorillas or orangutans.

Kinnari: brightly colored ground-dwelling seemingly-humanoid creatures. They form lifelong pair-bonds, but not larger social structures on a permanent scale.

Harpies: more inflatable sacks, now for both sexes. You wanted tits on a bird? Harpies tend to form small troupes of loosely related individuals. I've been thinking about just how uncanny valley I want to go with these guys and their relatives. Suffice it to say they will probably wing up looking rather wrong when I get into detail.

Ape Xaios: long-armed gibbon like winged primate analogues. There are two species the spotted and stripped, with respective plumage on their arms.

Seraphic Angels: they can use all their limbs as wings. They have a strange "triplane" flight configuration not seen in many species.

Cherubic Angels: they are similar to seraphic angels, in that they have multiple wings and absent tails. However like bird xiaos they only have two pairs of wings.

Bird Xaios: utilize four limbs for flight. They along with the so-called angels show an evolutionary trend away fromgrasping appendages and towards more dedication to flight.

Feinaos: protypical winged monkys.

Winged Lemurs: more primitive relatives of winged monkys

Winged-Rodents: the extinct sister-clade of the winged primates.

Winged-Shrews: the primitive form of the bird-mammals.

So one thing I have taken to, for the sake of clarity, is to take the tendency of mythology to just add wings to various creatures and instead have them become flightless and have atrophied wings. This means that on this planet often the winged form is the more "primitive" form and the wingless form is more adapted to a terrestrial niche.