Editing Mawdad family

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The '''mawdad family''' is a family of centipede-like creatures introduced in {{p3}}, although the family went unclassified until {{p3d}}. It contains only one member, the [[Armored Mawdad]], which the family is named after. Members belong to the ''Tuberclipeum'' genus.

==Members==
===Armored Mawdad===
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Scientific name: ''Tuberclipeum rex''

Armored Mawdad is the first boss in ''[[Pikmin 3]]'', and the boss of the [[Garden of Hope]]. It is a massive beast with a multitude of small gecko-like legs, a large head, yellow eyes, a bluish-green underbelly, a gaping mouth, and large curved mandibles. The boss crawls about and is able to climb up the sides of walls as a means of fleeing. Its shell is [[crystal]] and can be broken by [[Rock Pikmin]] to expose the soft skin underneath.
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== Naming ==
The family name ''mawdad'' contains ''maw'', a word used to describe the thick jaws of a predator, which members possess. The ''dad'' part may be an indication of authority. It may also be a reference to a "crawdad", another name for {{w|crayfish}}.

The family genus, ''Tuberclipeum'', includes the word "tuber". This is because {{w|potato}}es are a type of tuber, in reference to the Japanese name of the [[Armored Mawdad]], which contains the word "potato". The word ''clipeum'', meanwhile, is Latin for "shield", in reference to the Mawdad's crystal shell.
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===Names in other languages===
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{{foreignname
|Jap  = イモグソク科
|JapR = Imo Gusoku Ka
|JapM = Potato armor family
|Dut  = 
|DutM = 
|Fra  = armuridés
|FraM = From ''armure'' (armor)
|Ger  = Füßler
|GerM = Footler<br />From ''Tausendfüßer'' ("thousand-legger")
|Ita  = Ciompidi
|ItaM = 
|Spa  = Ciempiédulos
|SpaM = Mawdads
}}

==See also==
*[[Crawmad family]]
*[[Creep-crab family]]
*[[Crushblat family]]
*[[Pinchipede family]]

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