I think several of these need serious revisions. The vast majority of them suffer from far too many unnecessary proficiencies, especially weapon proficiencies. Weapon proficiencies are for the most part covered by class and the only three or so official races that get weapon proficiencies are dwarves, elves and hobgoblins. What you should instead be doing is describing the class which the average member of a race tends to go for in order to convey the image you want. eg many wood elves are rogues and rangers and prefer ranged combat etc
some other things you seriously need to revise are the likes of myconids who are rendered completely unplayable by features like sunlight sickness. you are giving them disadvantage on everything for being in the sun and the only way to negate that when in a sunny place is to have disadvantage on perception and hindered movement? Seriously? Do you want people to play this race or not? Sunlight sensitivity is more than enough to convey that myconids don't like the sun.
I would suggest looking at the DMG as it contains a section on making your own race and subrace. Your races have too many features and some of them are totally pointless. Remember racial stats are what a race is NATURALLY good at, not really meant to reflect preferences eg are they agile, strong wise? do they have claws that do unarmed damage or scales that provide armor? are they touched by magical or planar powers that grant them abilities? The preferences are the responsiblility of the class and once again as stated before you should explain class and playstyle preferences of the race but dont make them a feature.
As a general rule, you should get the following: 2 main features (which can be an ability, innate spells, advantages, resistances though you should avoid giving many classes a resistance unless it SUPER makes sense), a ribbon ability (something relatively meaningless but not so much that there is no point in having it so maybe a proficiency or something along those lines but as stated AVOID armor and weapon proficiencies) and if there is a subrace give an ability in between a ribbon and main ability (nothing too good but something which innately seperates the subraces)
Please be aware this is not to be mean or tear you down, this is my attempt at constructive criticism so you can take it or leave it but id highly recomend you take it.
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