Folidotodermia

**Foliotodermia**, (scaly skin in Greek), commonly known as **Raptiles** or **Foliotoderms**, are an ectothermic class under the superclass Septempollicema. they evolved about 270 million years ago, and their point of origin is South Primaterra. They are distinguished from by the fact they have scales. The Narepapills would give rise to the Dinoavesia and the Dirds, but would also give rise to one of the three intelligent races of septempollicema, Captiosus sapiens.

For a little while they would be the dominant class on South Primaterra, but after a few Extinction events they would lose the title to Gounia, and then to **Ypsilistasia.** But they have a chance to reclaim their title in the battle for Supremacy of Omnisterra.

## Physiology

The skin of **Folidotodermia** have dry skin with a layer of segmented scales. Their ancestors, the Agrioderms have moist skin covered in mucus secretions which keep them from drying up as they mature. When they reach adulthood, their skin is covered in rough, thick, waterproof scales. They are somewhat comparable to reptiles on Earth, though they are, quite obviously, their entirely own creature, and have several notable key differences. They evolved from the subclassXenolepospondyli, the only one of three classes to emerge from the clade Gallinaeveteris**,** meaning that they lay shelled eggs that don't need to be lain in water. Around the (TBD) era, most species laid soft leathery eggs, but some clades would later lay hard-shelled eggs, similar to those of birds on Earth. The exception to this is the order Neginnisia (after Greek for "true birth"), which give live birth.

## Evolution

There are two living subclasses alive today, the subclass Eufolidotodermia and the subclass Narepapillia. There are also some extinct subclasses, such as the subclass Xenosynapsidiformes (commonly known as Gounia-like **Folidotoderms**), and the subclass Chelonapsid. (Named after Greek for "Turtle faces", renamed from Xenoanapsida). The original ancestors of all Foliotoderms Folidotoagori morfisavras (The First Raptile) evolved into several other clades,  Folidotoagori morfisavras is the first species under the clade Limakaftera (named after Greek for "scales and wings", renamed from Xenosauropsids), Limakaftera is one of three sister clades, the other two clades being Teraspsids and Dracopsids, Limakaftera contains **Foliotodermia** and Fterotodermia, and the clade Progonimallia (named after Greek for "hair" and "ancestors", renamed from Xenosynapsidomorpha)(The name Xenosynapsidomorpha is now being used for another clade that comes in between Progonimallia and Xenosynapsidiformes.), despite its name Progonimallia didn't have hair, the reason why it is named that is because it's the ancestor of creatures that would evolve hair. Progonimallia contains Xenosynapsida and Gounia, and was originally thought to contain the class Ypsilistasia, but is now known to be from a different branch of the family tree entirely, from the clade Teraspsids, which is one of the three sister clades that branched off from the clade Gallinaeveteris. Limakaftera would give rise to the Subclass Eufolidotodermia, which would give rise to the Clade Progonimallia and the Clade Scutesdermia, Scutesdermia would go on to give rise to the Subclasses Narepapillia and Xenoanapsida. While Progonimallia would give rise to the Clade Xenosynapsidomorpha which would give rise to the Subclass Xenosynapsidiformes, which would give rise to Xenosynapsida, which would give rise to the Class Gounia. The Narepapills would give rise to the Dinoavesia and the Dirds, but would also give rise to one of the three intelligent races of septempollicema, Captiosus sapiens.

## Bio-electricity

Levels of how much each class kept the electric ability,

Agrioderma 100%

Olisthirodermia 88%

**Folidotodermia** 75%

Fterotodermia 25%

Gounia 50%

Ypsilistasia 99%

Frynoskorpia 50%

Xenosynapsid unknown

Dinoavesia unknown

Dracosaurs unknown.

The reason why 25% of them have lost the ability is because it was not worth having because it hurts everytime they use it and if they used it too much they would kill themselves. But some of the clades that do keep it but reduce it have found a way to use it more, by losing the neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain. But i know what you're thinking, if they can't feel pain then how will they know to stop and not accidentally kill themselves? Well by reducing it down to a non deadly level of voltage, around the same level of voltage as these shocking gum prank toys, that way it can use it all it wants without dieing. But I know what you're still thinking, how will they know to stop so they don't burn themselves, if the electricity doesn't kill them the burns will, and the answer is they may not be able to feel pain, but they can still feel and once they feel they're starting to burn themselves they will stop. But if a predator that also can't feel pain catches them the electricity defense won't work, well the answer to that is it will start to burn the predator too, and once at happens the predator will drop them. So 25% keep it but reduced it and can still feel the pain, 50% keep it but reduced it and can no longer feel pain, and 24% have just gotten rid of it entirely and maintain their ability to feel pain, and 1% have gotten rid of it after already losing the ability to feel pain.

Aposematism, and Albinaelectriamatism. **Aposematism** is widespread in Xenoinsecta, but less so in **Psariaskoulikions**, being mostly confined to **a** smaller number of ****Folidotoderm****, Olisthiroderm, and wish species, and some foul-smelling or aggressive Gounia. For Albinaelectriamatism, it's quite the opposite, Albinaelectriamatism is widespread in **Psariaskoulikion,** but less so in Xenoinsecta. Most Albinaelectriamatism **Folidotoderms** can still feel pain so they know when to stop, most Albinaelectriamatism **Folidotoderms** voltage levels are a bit higher then the shocking gum prank toys, so they need to keep the ability to feel pain so they know when to stop.

## Intelligence

Reptiles on Earth are not usually considered smart, most of them our average animal intelligence. But there are a few exceptions, some species of snakes such as pythons will actually guard their eggs until they hatch, some species of lizard such as the monitor lizards will also do this, monitor lizards will also use their slightly higher intelligence to hunt better than other lizards, it's a running joke amongst people that the turtle is Nature's D student but three species of turtles are possibly above-average when it comes to animal intelligence, the common snapping turtle, the North American wood turtle, and the Malaysian soft-shell. Crocodilians are considered the smartest group of reptiles, not as smart as birds or mammals, but typically place right underneath Birds when it comes to intelligence, because they can actually take care of their young, mother alligators will actually form a bond with her young while they're still in the eggs, and crocodiles are smart enough to remember your patterns, so they remember what time you usually come to the river and they will eat you, and even learn to work together to take down bigger kills, and what's even more shocking is for the longest time scientists thought that crocodiles couldn't feel emotion, because of how their brains were wired, and structured to simple and primitive being reptile brains, but one crocodile actually formed a bond with a human, when the human Let It Go it came right back, and when the crocodile eventually died of natural causes, it wandered away so it's human wouldn't find them dead. That shows a level of intelligence higher-than-average definitely. Some snapping turtles have also been seen forming bonds with their owners. But the smartest reptile, the real standout from the group is the Tegus, it is as smart as a dog, it can remember its name if you name it, it forms a close bond with its owners like a dog, and even loves being cuddled and petted just like a dog, dog intelligence is near human-level intelligence, not only making this the smartest lizard or the smartest reptile, but the only time a reptile has ever come close to human-level intelligence.

**Folidotoderms** on Hume III had a bit of a head start when it comes to intelligence, with most of them being around crocodilian levels of intelligence, but some groups being bird level intelligence, and a few individual genera and species reaching near human-level intelligence, some of the ones that are as smart as Birds have been seen using tools, just like some birds, and the ones that are near human-level intelligence have also been seen using tools and can even be taught to understand human language and trained like dogs, some have even attempted to learn sign language with their whisacles. speaking of sign language, one species actually has reached human-level intelligence and it's become one of the intelligent races on Hume III, that species is Captiosus sapiens. They have evolved actual hands to make Spears with, and even though they don't have vocal cords and can't actually speak they found a way to communicate using sign language. Speaking of speaking there actually is one species that can actually talk the way humans do it's common names are the talking lizard and the Talkodile. One species that are near human-level intelligence have actually formed a symbiotic relationship with the The Chia Aununa People, not quite domestication like a dog, but just a mutual understanding with them, they help each other hunt and in return they protect each other's children, the one species is Komodogeicomeleon, it is unknown how this species got to the island that The Chia Aununa People live on, but since they are near human-level intelligence they probably manually made rafts and raft it out, just like the Aununa did. Although some individuals have lowered their intelligence, for reasons of it was too much to maintain for the lifestyle they lived, or there just wasn't enough food in their area to maintain a high intelligence.

## Anatomy

Their head is where their brain is kept, their brain basically controls everything. Their eyes are on stalks like a snail, most of which have retractable eyes like a snail, but some have lost the ability to retract them, and others have forgone the stalks and instead they just have normal eyes like an Earth Tetrapod. How good their eyesight is depends on the clade and the lifestyle they live. Most **Folidotoderms** can see color. Most **Folidotoderms** are tetrachromats, which means they have 4 types of cones (humans only have 3 – red, green, and blue). This means that they can see the entire rainbow that humans can see, and more. **Folidotoderms** that have fourth cone allows them to see UVA light. But some can only see the same colors we see, and some can see even fewer, black and white with a few color sprinkled in, and others can only see in black and white. Some are farsighted and some are nearsighted and some are completely blind. some have infrared vision like snakes. Some Earth reptiles don't have eyelids, like snakes and some species of lizards, the snakes get around this by having a waterproof case over their eye, and lizards get around this, for example the Gecko, by licking their eyeball. **Folidotoderms** don't have to worry about this, because none of them have lost the ability to blink. How good their sense of smell is depends on the clade. Most use their whisacles to both smell and use them like arms, but some clades under the subclass Narepapillia, have reduce them too vestigial remnants because they switched to there operculum for smelling instead, some clades that use operculum to smell have not reduce the whisacles, because they haven't evolved hands and they still need something to use to grab. Most of them have identical teeth, but some have evolved different looking teeth that serve different functions, some have sharp teeth for eating meat, others have flat teeth and square teeth for eating plants, some have both when they are omnivores, and some don't have teeth. **Folidotoderms** are one of two classes in Septempollicema to use Venom, some have specially evolve teeth to inject Venom either for self-defense or to hunt and kill prey. How good their sense of taste is depends on the clade. Unlike lizards and snakes on Earth, none of them can smell with their tongue, there was no need for it since they have whisacles, most of them have a normal tongue that is only used for a swallow assist, but the Frog-like and chameleon-like tongue, which has only evolved once in lizards on Earth, has evolved more than once here, there's even an entire Suborder called Camaleoniformes, which all have the chameleon tongue, one other unique adaptation that has never evolved on Earth, is the ability to shoot acid from their tongue, most notable in the species Komodogeicomeleon. How good their sense of hearing is depends on the clade. Some have internal ears with no external ear holes, and some have external ear holes, and some don't have ears and cannot hear at all, some of the ones with internal ears can't exactly hear but can only feel vibrations just like turtles and snakes.

Most of them have six limbs, with seven digits on the end, and a tail. Some have less than seven digits, some have no digits and have re-evolved their legs back into fins or Flippers. Some have lost a pair of legs or two, some have lost all their legs entirely. Some clades develop centaurism, meaning they either became quadrupeds, which means they only walk on four legs instead of six, or they become bipeds meaning they walk on two legs instead of six, the ones that walk on four legs have evolved the front pair of legs into a set of arms, some of have even evolve them into praying mantis like arms, while the ones that walk on two legs have either evolve the front two pair of legs into arms or they have lost the middle or front pair and only have one set of arms. Most still have tails, the tail has only been lost one time, in the clade Antiooura, the ones that maintain the tails use them for balance, or they can break them off to escape predators and then the tail will grow back later, some can use them as a whip for self-defense, some have evolved spikes on the end of their tail, and in the water the tails can be used to help swim, and a small few of them have prehensile tails. Their skin covering differs from subclass to subclass, the Subclass: Eufolidotodermia having normal scale that overlap, but some species have non overlapping scales, but the clade Scutesdermia would evolved scutes. The Subclass: †Xenosynapsidiformes, early clades had normal overlapping scales but later clades would have non overlapping scales. the Subclass: Narepapillia, and the Subclass: †Xenoanapsida both have some species that have scutes and normal non-overlapping scales, some species that have scutes and overlapping normal scales, some species that had all three, and some species that only had scutes. The color changing skin ability has only evolved a few times and lizards most notably in the chameleon, but has evolved more times in **Folidotoderms**, in some it works just like the chameleon, not for camouflage. but for temperature change, and to show emotion, and to assert dominance, but in others it actually does work for camouflage, and they can change in an instant just like an octopus.

Their internal organs are what you would expect heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, all that good stuff. Some still have the three organs used to generate electricity, While others have reduced them a little bit, and others have completely gotten rid of the ability, so they are either vestigial remnants or they've been completely remove. They have a closed circulatory system, red blood, a central nervous system, muscles, and bones. There is a skull difference between the subclasses, Xenoanapsida have no openings, **Xenosynapsidiformes** have one opening, and **Eufolidotodermia and Narepapillia** have two openings. Temporal fenestrae are post-orbital openings in the **skull** that allow muscles to expand and lengthen. Most of them maintain their ancestral penis, while others have lost it and instead mate by touching their two cloacas together. The last thing worth mentioning about their internal workings is that all the near human level intelligent ones seem to be warm-blooded around mating season and then cold-blooded the rest of the time, just like the Tegus.

## Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Superclass: Septempollicema

Class: **Foliotodermia**

Subclasses, orders, and clades under Folidotodermia:

Subclass Eufolidotodermia

* Order Oxiniglossia
* Order Camaleoniomorph
* Order Kelyfipiso
* Order Scutesauria

Subclass Narepapillia

* Order Erplisiazon
* Order: Centauria

Subclass †Xenosynapsidiformes

Subclass †Xenoanapsida

\*\*Clades under Folidotodermia in no particular order\*\*

Clade: Limakaftera

Clade: Progonimallia

Clade: Camaleonia

Clade: Scutesdermia

Clade: Antiooura

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