Editing Porquillion

|image      = Porquillion P4 icon.png

|areas      = [[Sun-Speckled Terrace]], [[Hero's Hideaway]] ([[Story Mode]] and [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]])

|underground = [[Plunder Palace]], [[Cradle of the Beast]]

The '''Porquillion''' ({{j|ハリアラシ|Hariarashi|Hedgepine}}) is a spiky [[enemy]] in {{p4}}. In some fights, Porquillions serve the role of a [[Boss|mini-boss]] and the [[music]] correspondingly changes. They attack by shooting out the spikes on their bodies, though this leaves them vulnerable until they grow them back. The spikes have a chance to stun or outright kill Pikmin. The first one encountered in the game drops the [[Interstellar Radio]].

 

When idling, it simply roams about the area, with its spikes at the ready. When prey gets near, but not close enough for the spikes to reach, the Porquillion faces the next quadrant of its body that it plans to attack with towards the threat, and starts shaking in anticipation. If its target ends up getting closer, it will launch all spikes in that segment of the body outward and upward, aiming them so that they land on its prey. It will keep choosing a new quadrant and attacking until the threat is gone, or until it runs out of spikes. Once out of spikes, regardless of there being targets nearby, it will pause for a moment, charge up, and secrete new spikes on all segments of the body, ready to attack again. It will not regenerate spikes in any situation unless it is completely empty.

The creature's bulbous back is covered in a red shell filled with pores from which its white spikes come out. It is also divided into four distinct parts with a texture similar to inverted sponge. The rest of the body somewhat resembles a hedgehog's, with bulbous eyes, a tiny snout and four short legs tipped with nails.

 

* One appears as the first enemy encounter of the game, during the tutorial with [[Olimar]] in what is later revealed to be the [[Hero's Hideaway]]. This same Porquillion later appears in [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]]. The table is the same one where a [[Horned Cannon Beetle]] resides in the main game.

* In the northwest of the [[Sun-Speckled Terrace]], next to the Distant Summit landing site.

* In the 3rd sublevel of the [[Plunder Palace]], elevated on a platform. Such a location removes charging and rushing as a strategy against this enemy.

*In sublevel 2 of [[Cradle of the Beast]]. Here, it is not treated as a boss.

|common    = Porquillion. May be a combination of 'Porcupine', 'Quill', and 'Million'.

|jpcommon  = {{j|ハリアラシ|Hariarashi}}. It appears to be a combination of {{j|ハリネズミ|harinezumi|hedgehog|f=tp}} or {{j|ハリ|hari|needle|f=tp}} and {{j|ヤマアラシ|yamaarashi|porcupine|f=tp}}.

|jpname    = {{j|ドドメイガグリヒコウ|Dodome Igaguri Hikou|{{w|Mulberry (color)|Mulberry}} Chestnut Burr {{w|Cingulata|Cingulate}}}}. "Mulberry" may refer to its reddish color, while "chestnut burr" refers to its spikes. {{j|ヒコウ|Hikou}} may be short for {{j|被甲目|Hikōmoku|Cingulata|f=tp}}, an order of animals that armadillos belong to.

|scientific = ''Castanutum pricklirus''. ''Pricklirus'' is derived from "prickly", referring to the creature's sharp spikes, whereas ''Castanutum'' is derived from ''Castanea'', the Latin word for chestnut.

|internal = <code>HARI</code>. It directly translates into "needle", referring to how it attacks.

|Jap = ハリアラシ

|JapR = Hariarashi

|JapM =  

|Por = Tatulha

|PorM = Armaneedle

|PorN = The name is a portmanteau of ''"tatu"'' (armadillo) and ''"agulha"'' (needle)