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The other things highlighted here were my references and what differences there would be between salmonlings and the other playable species:

The salmon form is their version of the swim form, being a simplified salmon design meant to look like mostly ink

The Salmonling's hair are their fins, but can be manipulated much like hair and is much more messy to handle than inkling or octoling tentacles

This is also why the "pattern" in their hair is lines instead of dots, its meant to be similar to the fat patterns in salmon and look like fins

The ears are their front fins, which is kind of against the design of inklings and octolings but I thought it would fit better since they are fish

The teeth are the opposite of inkling "teeth"

Their scalara is yellow to match with Salmonids in game

Their hands have webs since salmonids use their fins as their version of hands anyways

The ink colour is twofold in meaning - In Splatoon 2 Octo expansion, they flipped which colour represented the good guys: green was the colour of Agent 4 in the final fight and pink the colour of Octarians, while in Octo Expansion Pink represents agent 8 and green represents the sanitized enemies and primordial ooze.