Editing Lithopod family

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The '''lithopod family''' ({{j|イシツツミ科|Ishi tsutsumi ka|Stone wrapper family}}) is a family of [[Enemy|enemies]] that exists in all four mainline [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' games]], as well as ''[[Hey! Pikmin]]''. Members of this family have the ability to suck in air and spit out rocks. Members belong to the ''Granitus'' and ''Granignis'' genera.

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 ===
[[File:Arctic Cannon Larva P4 icon.png|left|150px]]
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Scientific name: ''Granitus frostitum'' (larva)

The Arctic Cannon Larva is a variety of lithopod that appear in {{p3}} and {{p4}}. It is of a brighter whitish-green color compared to the Armored Cannon Larva with a lavender underbelly. They live in snowy areas, and instead of spitting out boulders, they spit out snowballs that trap [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] and leaders, and sends them back on a predetermined path. Like the [[Armored Cannon Larva|Armored Cannon Beetle Larva]]'s boulders, [[Winged Pikmin]] can fly over them. The only non-visual different between it and its cousin is that snowballs don't flatten Pikmin, but can knock them into hazards or send them back to the end of the path.

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=== Arctic Cannon Beetle ===
[[File:Arctic Cannon Beetle P4 icon.png|left|150px]]
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Scientific name: ''Granitus frostitum''

The Arctic Cannon Beetle is the adult stage of the Arctic Cannon Larva. It is seen in {{p4}}. The Arctic Cannon Beetle appears similar to the Armored Cannon Beetle and Horned Cannon Beetle, with a light blue shell, blue skin, red eyes, and no blowhole. It also spits out snowballs instead of boulders. Due to its lack of a blowhole, it breathes through its mouth instead, allowing it to inhale groups of Pikmin but also forcing it to expose its abdomen as it inhales.

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=== Armored Cannon Beetle ===
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Scientific name: ''Granitus chukkulinae''

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.

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=== Armored Cannon Larva ===
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Scientific name: ''Granitus chukkulinae'' (larva)

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, and appears to breathe through it, like 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.

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=== Decorated Cannon Beetle ===
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Scientific name: ''Granitus decorum''

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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Scientific name: ''Granignis ictum''

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.

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=== Horned Cannon Beetle ===
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Scientific name: ''Granitus ferrous''

The Horned Cannon Beetle is a lithopod seen in {{p4}}. It appears very similar to the Armored Cannon Beetle, but with a less metallic and more segmented shell, along with longer mandibles. The blowhole is also larger and higher up on the shell, pointing at an angle instead of being front facing. It's overall more detailed, but as these details are shared with the Arctic Cannon Beetle, these differences are likely due to graphical improvements.

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== Other members ==
=== Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle ===
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''Official family unknown''

The Player's Guide "Field Guide" description for the Armored Cannon Beetle also mentions a Lithopod known as the Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle. It is said to be a continental breed, and to have the ability to compress inhaled air in a bladder and use the pressure to expel partially digested fragments of stone. The ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' Prima Guide uses the "Field Guide" description for the Armored Cannon Beetle verbatim except with one change: the one mention of the Strong-Armed Cannon Beetle was changed to the Armored Cannon Beetle's technical name, Greater Lithopod.

==Naming==
The family name itself, "lithopod", is derived from the Greek word ''lithos'', meaning stone, and "arthropod", due to their insect-like appearance.

Some members of this family have the words "armored" (or "armoured", in the European version of {{p3}}), "cannon", and "beetle" in their name. This is because the adult creature, the Armored Cannon Beetle, has an impenetrable carapace, much like it's wearing armor. Members of this family also shoot projectiles out of their mouth, much like a cannon. Finally, the adult creature also resembles a beetle.

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.

The genus most members of this family belong to is ''Granitus'', which is Latin for "granite", referring to the rocks they shoot.

Between the English and Japanese versions of {{ps}} games, the classifications of members of this family differ greatly.

In the English versions, the Armored Cannon Beetle and Horned Cannon Beetle are seemingly two distinct creatures. The Armored Cannon Beetle Larva is a young variant of the Armored Cannon Beetle. The two species can interbreed, but pollution of the gene pool from the Horned Cannon Beetle is driving the Armored Cannon Beetle and its larvae to extinction.

In the Japanese versions, the Armored Cannon Beetle and Horned Cannon Beetle are the same creature, as they share the same Japanese name. They have different common names, however. The Armored Cannon Beetle Larva is instead the larva of a different otherwise unseen species, the territory of which the Armored Cannon Beetle/Horned Cannon Beetle is invading and endangering it.

===Names in other languages===
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|Jap  = イシツツミ科
|JapR = Ishi tsutsumi ka
|JapM = Stone wrapper family
|JapN = 
|ChiTrad  = 裏石蟲科
|ChiTradR = Lǐ shí chóng kē
|ChiTradM = Lithozoidae
|ChiSimp  = 裹石虫科
|ChiSimpR = Lǐ shí chóng kē
|ChiSimpM = Lilithidae
|Dut  = 
|DutM = 
|DutN = 
|Fra  = lithophages
|FraM = Stone-eaters
|FraN = The name is a portmanteau of ''"litho"'' (stone) and ''"phage"'' (eat)
|Ger  = Lithopoden
|GerM = Lithopod
|GerN = 
|Ita  = 
|ItaM = 
|ItaN = 
|Kor  = 바위보따리 과
|KorR = Bawi-Bottali Gwa
|KorM = Rock bundle family
|KorN = 
|Spa  = Litópodos
|SpaM = Lithopods
|SpaN = 
|Por  = Comelitoídeos
|PorM = Eatlithoidae
|PorN = The name is a portmanteau of ''"comer"'' (to eat), ''"lito"'' (Greek litho; stone) and the suffix "''-ídeos''" ({{w|Family_(biology)#Nomenclature|-idae}}), which is used for naming animal family names
|PorP  = 
|PorPM = 
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|Rus  = 
|RusM = 
|RusN = 
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}}

==See also==
*[[Boulder]]
*[[Polyocular slug family]]
*[[Meerslug family]]

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[[Category:Families with mentioned enemies]]