Species of Tyranid

Bio-Ships

• Leviathan Hiveship⁶
• Beast of Bhein Morr⁷
• Void Kraken of Talassar⁷
• Razorfiend Cruiser⁶
• Prowler Drones⁶
• Stalker Drones⁶

Titan Size Creatures

• Dominatrixes Huge monsters symbiotically fused with a smaller (Warrior-sized) entity which acts as a psychic link to the Norn-Queen aboard her ship.
• Hydraphant The largest known Tyranid creature capable of planetary deployment. They are even larger than the Hierophant bio-titan.
• Hierophant These are the equivalent of an Imperial Warlord Battle Titan.
• Vituperator A huge Tyranid monster capable of flight.
• Hierodule The equivalent of a small Imperial Titan.

Warmachine Size Creatures

• Harridan Large winged creature. It carries Gargoyles into battle.
• Cerebore A massive Tyranid transporter organism.
• Malefactors One of the general variety of assault creatures. It can carry other broods into battle under its carapace.
• Viragon A huge tunnelling Tyranid which looks like a huge Trygon.
• Trygon Large serpentine organism, comparable in size to an Imperial Baneblade.
• Dactylis Long-range firepower specialist organism.
• Haruspex A genus of assault spawn intended to rush at the enemy lines.
• Exocrine Bred as a long range tank hunter, its two forelimbs are fused together to form a massive cannon-like bio-symbiote weapon.
• Malanthrope

Monstrous Creatures

• Carnifexes
• Hive Tyrants
• Magma Corers¹⁰

Medium Size Creatures

Warrior Creatures

• Broodlords
• Tyrant Guard
• Tyranid Warriors
• Lictors
• Raveners

Other Medium Size Tyranids

• Zoanthropes
• Biovores

Small Size Tyranid Creatures

• Gaunts
• Gargoyles
• Genestealers
• Rippers

Tiny Tyranid Creatures

• Scataphagoids¹

Species unknown to Imperial scientists

• Norn-Queens are believed to be the mysterious female counterparts to the Hive Tyrants. They lead the Tyranid swarms and direct the evolutionary paths to take. They invariably stay aboard their Hive Ships.

Special Characters

• Old One Eye
• Red Terror
• Death Leaper

Tyranid Flora and Bio-Structures

• Barbed Thermotropic Vine^9,10
• Broodhive⁹
• Brood Nest
• Capillary Tower^9,10
• Magma Vent^9,10
• Meiotic spores⁸
• Mycetic Spores¹⁰
• Reclamation Pool^9,10
• Spore Chimney^9,10
• Vitrified Plants⁹

Ex Tyranid Forces

• Grabber-Slashers are destructive warrior assassins that appear to share certain biological traits with Orks. They are very muscular and aggressive creatures, capable of propelling themselves by their tails alone. Uniquely, they contain a type of algae within their blood that allows them to synthesise the genetic material of their victims and use this to mutate their form.

• Zoats
• Genestealer Patriach
• Genestealer Magus
• Hunter Slayers
• Genestealer Hybrids
• Squig Swarm
• Shroud-Spinner
• Mind-Slaver

Forgotten Fleets

Note: these are created by Games Workshop but are not in any published record and as such require the permission of the opposition to use.

• Ramblin' Snapper
• Kromlok Dangler
• Arenea Stalker
• Debilithrax
• Colossus
• Leaping Thornsnake
• Dakkarian Brain Slug
• Gorzal Swamp Lurker
• Brood Crawler
• Horror of Icthiam
• Shelled Slasher

Sources

• ¹Codex: Tyranids (2nd Edition)
• ²Tyranid Evolution
• ³Tyranid Special Characters
• ⁴Forge World Tyranid Range
• ⁵Tyranid Miniatures Gallery
• ⁶Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook
• ⁷Gothic Fleet Downloads
• ⁸Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project
• ⁹White Dwarf 254(us) "Hostile Terrain" by Pete Haines
• ¹⁰White Dwarf 254(us) "Tyranid Planetary Assimilation Analysis" by Sherman Bishop
• ¹¹Advanced Space Crusade (Game)