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| The Litorians are just like Homo sapiens with the following exceptions.
| | *Litorian Ethnography Chapter 1: Place |
| *1. There is no difference, externally, between male and female Litorians, other than that, on the average, the females are shorter and weigh less. | |
| *2. They are completely hairless. The skin is similar to human skin and there are no [[Wikipedia:Scute|scutes]] or scales. The skin is various shades of a dark green, with the soles and palms being lighter, almost white.
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| *3. There are no external ears, but their hearing is comparable to that of Homo sapiens.
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| *4. Vision extends into the ultraviolet ranges. The pupils are round.
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| *5. There is a row of six [[Wikipedia:Infrared sensing in snakes|pit organs]] on the upper lip to detect infrared radiation.
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| *6. There is a [[Wikipedia:Parietal eye|parietal eye]] on top of the head, just behind the forehead. It is covered with translucent skin and assists in [[Wikipedia:Thermoregulation|thermoregulation]].
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| *7. The male genitalia are internal, so that the male and female pubic area look the same. The male possesses only one inverted [[Wikipedia:Hemispenis#Unpaired penis as ancestral form|penis]].
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| *8. Females are [[Wikipedia:Ovovivipary|ovoviviparous]]. They go into [[Wikipedia:Estrous cycle|estrus]] in the autumn, as the days grow shorter.
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| *9. The female ovum carries the chromosome for [[Wikipedia:XY sex-determination system|sex determination]]. The left ovary produces female ova and the right male. Ovulation from each ovary occurs concurrently.
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| *9. Fraternal twins are born in the spring after a gestation of eight lunar months. The babies are bright blue at birth and gradually darken to green as they grow older.
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| *10. The males possess a [[Wikipedia:Sagittal crest|sagittal crest]] the skin of which turns red in the presence of a female in estrus.
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| *11. Litorian [[Wikipedia:Dentition|dentition]] is the same as that of Homo sapiens, except that they lack incisors. The dental formula is 4.4, ''i.e.'', four canines and four molars.
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| *12. The Litorian hand is just like the human hand. The four fingers are webbed between the proximal [[Wikipedia:Phalanx bone|phalanges]].
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| *13. The foot, however, is different. It has the same structure as the human foot, but instead of nails on top of the toes, there are [[Wikipedia:Claw#Reptiles|claws]] extending from the ends of the toes. The great toe is larger than the other four, but they are all of the same length. All five have three phalanges.
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| *14. The skin of the soles is tougher than that of other parts of the body.
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| *15. The [[Wikipedia:Pectoralis major muscle|chest]] musculature is the same as that of Homo sapiens, but, since the Litorians are not mammals, there are no nipples. There is no word for "breast" in their language.
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| *16. There is a nasal bridge, but the cartilage of the septum is not as long as it is in Homo sapiens, so that the nostrils open forward more, and downward less.
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| *17. There is a [[Wikipedia:Cloaca|cloaca]] for the purposes of reproduction and urination. Defecation takes place in the same way as in humans.
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