Editing Miniature Snootwhacker

|areas      = [[Hero's Hideaway]] ([[Story Mode]] and [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]])

|underground = [[Dream Home]], [[Ultimate Testing Range]], [[The Mud Pit]]

|dandori_c  = [[Trial of the Sage Leaf]]

|attacks    = Knock back Pikmin

 

The '''Miniature Snootwhacker''' ({{j|コバナタタキ|Ko Bana Tataki|Little Nose-Knocker}}) is an enemy in {{p4}}. It is the younger variant of the [[Mammoth Snootwhacker]]. Due to its tough skin, it is immune to most physical attacks from Pikmin, even [[Rock Pikmin]]. Its belly is its weak point, but it can only be exposed by charging at it with [[Oatchi]], using a [[lightning shock]], or detonating a [[bomb rock]] or other explosive item near the creature.

Upon getting close to Pikmin, Oatchi, or the player, the Miniature Snootwhacker will use its trunk to do a spinning attack. If this attack hits its target, they are briefly knocked into the air and sent a moderate distance away from where they were hit. If Oatchi hits the Miniature Snootwhacker with a rush, it will flip and reveal its soft belly, which is able to be damaged by Pikmin and/or Oatchi. When the Miniature Snootwhacker regains it's footing after being flipped, it will knock off any Pikmin attacking it. The Miniature Snootwhacker is unable to kill Pikmin.

The Miniature Snootwhacker is a small, green, elephant-like creature with a bright red underbelly that closely resembles the [[Mammoth Snootwhacker]], its older counterpart. Its color palette and texture resemble that of a watermelon.

=== Dalmo's notes ===

{{transcript|The way it catches its food, protects its belly, and gets up while working with the weight of its sizable trunk are all taught by its diligent parents. Instead of hand and foot, they attend to their offspring nose and foot! They prepare the child for the day it will leave the nest and eventually become a parent itself.|block=y}}

=== Olimar's notes ===

{{transcript|Immediately after birth, this species's skin starts to harden, and before long it will reach the same impenetrable toughness as that of an adult.

Adult Snootwhackers dexterously use their trunks to grab food from high tree branches, but juveniles consume fruits and nuts that have fallen to the ground, as well as other types of terrestrial flora.

 

=== Louie's notes ===

|jpcommon  = {{j|コバナタタキ|Ko Bana Tataki|Little Nose-Knocker}}. "Little" is used to differentiate it from the [[Mammoth Snootwhacker]].

|jpname    = {{j|クロスジマキバナウリ 幼体|Kuro Suji Maki Bana Uri Youtai|Black-streaked Coiled Nose Melon (juvenile)}}.

|scientific = ''Naspiralum melona'' (adolescent). It has the same scientific name to the Mammoth Snootwhacker, with the mention of its adolescence.

|internal  = <code>SHIPPOZAKO</code>. <code>SHIPPO</code> is the internal name for the Mammoth Snoothwhacker, which means "tail", which could refer to how it swings its trunk like a tail. "Zako", which means small-fry, is used to distinguish the size.

|Jap  = コバナタタキ

|JapR = Ko Bana Tataki

|JapM = Little Nose-Whacker

|Dut  = Snoetstomperkalf

|DutM = Snoot thumper calf

|Ger  = Mini-Rüsselklatscher

|GerM = Mini Trunkclapper

|Ita  = Proboscibatto nano

|ItaM = Dwarf trunkbeater

|ItaN= Portmanteau of "proboscide" (trunk) and "battere" (to beat)

|Kor  = 꼬마코치기

|KorR = Kkoma-Ko-Chigi

|KorM = Little Nose-Whacker

|SpaN = "trompa" (trunk) with the agent suffix "-ador"

|Por = Trombate nanico

|PorM = Runt trunnock

|PorN = "trombate" is a portmanteau of "tromba" (trunk) and "bater" (knock)

{{image|more images of wild Miniature Snootwhackers and a corpse of one.}}

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[[Category:Subterranean Swarm]]

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