During the hatching of daughters, the Dalatrasses of the mother and father’s clans are present at the imprinting. The young salarians psychologically imprint on her and tend to defer to her wishes. Salarian hatching is a solemn ritual in which the clan matriarch, known as the Dalatrass, isolates herself with the eggs. They also possess a form of psychological 'imprinting', tending to defer to those they knew in their youth. Salarians have photographic memories and rarely forget a fact. Social rules prevent all but a fraction from being fertilized.

Once a year, a Salarian female will lay a clutch of dozens of eggs. The Salarians are amphibian haplo-diploid egg-layers unfertilized eggs produce males and fertilized eggs produce females. The drawback of this active metabolism is a short lifespan of around 40 human years. Their minds and bodies work faster than most sapient races, making them seem restless or hyperactive. Salarians are noted for their high-speed metabolism, which allows them to function on just one hour of sleep a day. When Salarians roll their eyes, it is not a sign of disdain as with humans, but rather a response to situations where the thin protective membranes require extra help in defending against dryness or irritants. Salarians blink upwards, rather than downwards as humans do. Salarians can see ultraviolet at the short-wavelength end of the spectrum. The pupils are a wide slit, oriented horizontally, and the irises can be dark green, purple, red, blue, or brown. Salarian eyes are large and oval and have thin membranes in place of eyelids.

Skin varies in color, from bright reds and greens to the more common shades of blue or grey.

Salarian heads are long and thin, and have a pair of horns protruding from the top of their skulls.

The Salarians are a bipedal race of amphibians, with tall, elongated bodies well-suited for their high metabolism, and skeletons composed of more cartilage than those of other races such as humans. Leader(s): Technocrat Dantalion and Dalatrass Linwonīiology, History and Culture of the Salarians.

Salarian homeworld