Editing Lithopod family

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In ''Pikmin'', the rocks can be destroyed by a [[punch]], while in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', a Purple Pikmin's stomp can destroy them with ease. In ''Pikmin 2'', leaders can also [[lie down]] to destroy them without receiving damage.

== Members ==

=== Arctic Cannon Larva ===

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=== Arctic Cannon Beetle ===

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The Armored Cannon Beetle is the mature specimen of an Armored Cannon Beetle Larva. It is seen in {{p1}}. It is a large, black, metallic-looking beetle with a thick, impervious, rounded shell of armor, a blowhole above its head, and a mouth. It attacks by inhaling through its blowhole and subsequently spitting out rolling rocks from its mouth, crushing any Pikmin (or leader) in the way. The only way to defeat it is to clog its blowhole with a Pikmin, which will cause the beetle to expose its steaming red backside.

=== Armored Cannon Larva ===

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Armored Cannon Larvae are enemies in {{p2}}, {{p3}}, and {{p4}}. They resemble large grubs with small blue eyes and a mouth bearing resemblance to that of the [[Armored Cannon Beetle]]. It also has a blowhole, but appears to inhale through its mouth, unlike the adult form. This animal behaves in much the same manner as the Armored Cannon Beetle, but turns and spits at a faster rate and has much less [[health]]. They do not have the hard exoskeleton the adults are infamous for, and are thus vulnerable on all parts of their body.

=== Decorated Cannon Beetle ===

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Decorated Cannon Beetles have an appearance identical to Armored Cannon Beetle Larvae, except they are red instead of green. They, too, spit out stones, but their rocks home in on the leaders due to a magnetic substance inside the rock which locks onto the leaders' suits. The adult form of this has not appeared in any [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' games]] so far, but they appear to be in the same family as the Armored Cannon Beetle.

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=== Firesnout Beetle ===

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Firesnout Beetles are a lithopod encountered in ''Hey! Pikmin''. They resemble Armored Cannon Beetle Larvae, but are much smaller. Their skin is bright orange and they have a brown striped shell with five "vents" near the front. They also only have two pairs of legs. Firesnout Beetles appear in stages based around descending with [[Winged Pikmin]], and serve as obstacles. They reside inside of walls and periodically spew fire directly in front of themselves, so the player must delay Olimar's descent, lest he and his Pikmin get burned. They can be defeated by a single Pikmin being thrown at them, but it is recommended to use [[Red Pikmin]] or wait until they have stopped breathing fire.

=== Horned Cannon Beetle ===

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''Official family unknown''

==Naming==

These creatures' Japanese names use the words {{j|フタクチドックリ|Futa Kuchi Dokkuri}}, which translates roughly to "Two-Mouth Tokkuri". {{j|フタ|futa}} means "two", and {{j|クチ|kuchi}} means "mouth", referring to how they have a blowhole in addition to their mouth. {{j|ドックリ|dokkuri}} means "{{w|Sake set#Server|tokkuri}}", the name given to the flask used to serve sake from in a sake set, since their mouths look like the openings of those flasks.

===Names in other languages===

|JapR = Ishi tsutsumi ka

|JapM = Stone wrapper family

|ChiTrad  = 裏石蟲科

|Fra  = lithophages

|Ger  = Lithopoden

|Kor  = 바위보따리 과

|Spa  = Litópodos

|SpaM = Lithopods

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==See also==

*[[Boulder]]

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