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[adridoot]

Piktober Day 24: freezing

thats one way to hunt!

[flamefireflower]

What's better than a picture that has Pikmin vibes? Why, a picture that also has actual Pikmin as well, of course!

[cartographers-office]

The PNF-404 Phylogenetic Tree

A bit of a different post from the usual, as I have been very hyped for Pikmin 4! Here's my speculative phylogenetic tree for most of the creatures in the Pikmin series. It is a bit more cautious than an actual phylogenetic tree, so there are a lot of soft polytomies (ideally every branch split should only have two children), but I digress.

Edit

It seems that Tumblr's compression did some nasty work on my post, so I'm gonna leave here a link to my phylogenetic tree in case anyone would like to see it in its full glory.

Here are also all the notes on the image in case anyone needs those too:

Author's Notes

Updated as of the Pikmin 4 Demo.

Icons taken from the Pikipedia and Pikmin games.

Fonts used are “Pikmin Font” by TheAdorableOshawott and “Dimbo” by Jayvee Enaguas.

Species with multiple scientific names

The Red Bulborb, Empress Bulblax and Bulborb Larvae are all explicitly different forms of the same species, as is the case in their Japanese technical name.

The Spotty Bulbear and Dwarf Bulbear are both explicitly different forms of the same species, as is the case in their Japanese technical name.

The Baldy Long Legs and Hairy Long Legs are explicitly stated to be the same species.

The Centipare and adult Centipare have completely different scientific name and family.

Incorrect scientific name (according to Japanese family name)

Despite being in the Breadbug family, the Fiery Dwarf Bulblax, has the Oculus genus instead of Pansarus. This is corrected here.

Despite not being in the Blowhog family, the Tusked Blowhog shares its Sus genus.

Despite not being in the Mandiblards family, the Shooting Spiner shares its Himeagea genus.

Despite not being in the Flint Beetle family, the Glint Beetle shares its Pilli genus.

The Floaterbie family is supposed to be the same family as the Flutterbie family in the original Japanese.

The Crysanthemum family is considered the same as the Dandelion family in the original Japanese.

Changes due to assumed consistency

All Wollyhop names have been updated to match the Wolpole's European name, which was standardized in Pikmin 4.

Similarly, All mentions of the “frodendum" specific name have been updated to match Wolpole's frondiferorum name in Pikmin 4.

The Red Spectralid has a different genus (Fenestrati) than every other Spectralid. This is likely a mistake is corrected here.

Despite not all Candypop Buds being present in the Pikmin 4 Demo, it is assumed they are all now considered the same species in the Piklopedia.

Scientific name in the wrong order

The Fiery Young Yellow Wollyhop has its “volcanus" subspecies name incorrectly placed in front of its scientific name. This is corrected here.

The Queen Shearwig, Speargrub and Sheargrub all have their genus incorrectly placed as their specific name. This is corrected here.

Incorrect use of real taxonomy terms

The genus Chilopoda of the Centipare is actually the real world class of the centipedes.

The genus Stauromedusae of the Medusal Slurker is actually a real world order of cnidarians.

The specific name phytohabitans of the Leech Hydroe is actually a real world genus of bacteria.

The genus of the Common Glowcap is actually the real world kingdom of fungi.

Inconsistencies within English localizations

The Coppeler has the Scarpanica genus added in the American localization.

The Armurk has different scientific names: Tegoparastacoidea reptantia (US) and Scalobita rotunda (EU).

Other Notes

The Caustic Dweevil was renamed to Hydro Dweevil and its scientific name to Mandarachnia aquadis in the Switch port of Pikmin 2.

Although the Puffstool has no confirmed family, it shares a genus with the Puffstalk, implying they are likely related.

Missing creatures: Mamuta, Smoky Progg, Blubbug, Puffy Blubbug, Electric Cottonade, Red Blubblimp, Seedbagger, Stuffed Bellbloom.

Unplaceable creatures (extradimensional and/or possibly entirely artificial life forms): Waterwraith, Plasm Wraith.

[fullmoonfireball]

Hey! Pikmin enemies add-on because i'm normal (lie):

Grub-dogs, Breadbugs, and Aerodentia's Weird Club:

Crumbbug (a Breadbug)

Eye-Stalker Bulbeel (a Grub-dog)

Fiery Dwarf Bulblax (a Breadbug)

Fireflap Bulborb (a Breadbug, explicitly related to the Fiery Dwarf Bulblax)

Long Water Dumple (a Grub-dog)

insect:

Adult Centipare and its small counterpart, the Centipare.

Blubbug

Coppeller (Same family as Snitchbugs)

Electric Spectralid

Electripede (Same family as Anode Beetles)

Firesnout Beetle (this is a canon beetle larva, down to being a Lithopod!)

Flatterchuck (Same family as Skutterchucks)

Grabbit

Muggonfly (Same family as Snitchbugs)

Puffy Blubbug

Queen Shearwig (I hate this thing.)

Shearblug (a Mandiblard)

Sparrowhead (Same family as Scornets)

Speargrubs (a Mandiblard)

Spiny Coppeller (Same family as Snitchbugs)

Sporegrub (a Mandiblard)

Spornet (not to be confused with Scornets)

Stony Flint Beetle

Widemouthed Anode Beetle

arachnid:

Shooting Spiners

amphibian:

Fiery Young Yellow Wollyhop (I don't know either)

Young Yellow Wollyhop

mammal:

bird:

Crested Mockiwi

Elongated Crushblat (don't know why it's called that, this is a mockiwi.)

Mockiwi

mollusc:

Starnacle. explicitly described as a mollusc!

Seedbagger. while not canonically related, it reminds me of the Honeywisp in both appearance and behaviour, which makes me more comfortable putting it here than i probably should be, especially since i only counted the Honeywisp as a mollusk thanks to it strongly resembling a sea angel. whatever. I'm counting it.

crustacean:

Crammed Wraith (do not be fooled by the weird english name.)

cnidarian:

Clicking Slurker and its grown counterpart, the Luring Slurker (same family as Medusal Slurkers)

Flying Spotted Jellyfloat

Leech Hydroe. While its scientific name, Hydridae phytohabitans, comes from a genus of bacteria, this little guy is most definitely a hydra, as the common name may imply!

echinoderm:

Large Splurchin (i didn't know urchins were echinoderms until now! huh!)

fish: N/A

ambulofungus:

Puffstalk (Same family as Puffstool)

ambuloradicis: N/A? (see below)

what?:

Armurk. part of the Creep-crab family, like the Segmented Crawbster, which suggests it's a crustacean, pikipedia likens it to a horseshoe crab, and its generator name is "boss_spiked_isopod"... but this is a mollusk. you guys are lying to me. its legs are even described as "jellylike" in-universe. this is only a "what?" because of the discrepancy.

Crystalline Crushblat. no notes about it being a mollusk, no whiskers, but still a crushblat and is thus still weird.

Fireflinger Groink. I don't know what's up with Groinks.

Red Bubblimp. weird little goopy thing that apparently only shows up as newborns in-game. wonder where the adults are. unfortunately, this little baby thing doesn't offer much insight as to what its parents might look like.

Stuffed Bellbloom. I'm not sure what's happening here, but the scientific name Legumos trypophobis suggests to me it might be an ambuloradicis? maybe? I'm grasping at straws here.

i don't think that's an animal: N/A. nothing seemingly supernatural here, wahoo!

anyways here's the full "tierlist" before i lose my mind even more

there's probably some incorrect classifications in here based on flavour text (i really don't want to double-check the ten billion dweevils and arachnorbs right now) but at this point i just want this out of my hands. also i might end up tacking some Hey! Pikmin enemies onto this later if i feel like it

EDIT: some rambling about the reasoning/specifics of this tierlist (such as why i haven't categorized the blowhogs of the real life genus Sus as mammals here) can be found here

[ghost-ofstarman]

WIP I never finished for the new Pikmin game, Hey! Pikmin. I made this when the game was first announced but I lost the layers forever ago so....here you go. Guess I’ll do another one when the game comes out, I’m SO ready to spend nearly 50 dollars on a game I know I won’t like very much (hey at least the music is incredible albeit sounds nothing like pikmin).

[flamefireflower]

◦ ○ The Forest of Hope ○ ◦

Continuing with the Pikmin 1 areas~

[straight-up-looping-it]

I’m gonna do all of the ones in the picture because. Why not

Arachnode- probably wouldn’t be much of a threat if you don’t get caught in its web, and you could probably pretty easily cut off the legs and grill them or smth, but it is a spider so probably not super tasty (also it is yellow and black and from the very little I know about animal colours, I’m pretty sure that means it’s poisonous)- 5/10

Okay that was long I’ll keep the others short

Armoured cannon larva- hard to hunt, armoured so probably hard to prepare, but it might taste decent - 2/10

Bulborb - probably a bit hard to hunt, but managable if you’re prepared, quite easy to prepare, and I imagine it would just be the Pikmin alternative to a cow or smth - 8/10

Dwarf bulborb- same as bulborb but easier to hunt, though it is smaller- 9/10

Female sheargrub- defenceless, seems easy to prepare, just roast it whole, though it doesn’t look too tasty - 8/10

Honeywisp - defenceless, though it can fly so it isn’t as easy as female sheargrub, no need to prepare, just drink the nectar it produces, and the nectar is said to be quite tasty (i think) - 9/10

Horned cannon beetle - same as its larva, but harder to hunt and prepare - 2/10

Iridescent flint beetle - harmless but very fast, doesn’t seem to have much edible meat on it, but it’s probably pretty tasty - 6/10

Joustmite - probably not too hard to hunt, it’s tail looks pretty easy to cook and eat - 8/10

Male sheargrub - slightly harder to hunt and prepare than the female one - 7.5/10

Mama sheargrub - female sheargrub but it’s probably pretty deadly - 6/10

Mamuta -cannot harm you directly and is peaceful until provoked, but inedible - 0/10

Puffy blowhog- can’t harm directly, but can push you off high falls and is likely annoying to hunt, plus it has almost no meat on it - 3/10

Titan blowhog- despite its size, it’s not too hard to hunt, plus it seems pretty easy to prepare and would taste nice - 8/10

Watery blowhog - can only kill you if you’re not wearing a space suit, but if you weren’t you’d die to PNF-404’s atmosphere first anyway, probably just a non spicy, watery version of the fiery blowhogs- 7/10

White spectralid- flies, is harmless, has almost no meat on it - 4/10

Baldy long legs- hard to hunt, doesn’t seem edible (and if it is it doesn’t seem tasty at all)- 0/10

Burrowing snagret- quite hard to hunt, though it is a bird, so presumably easy to prepare and is tasty- 7/10

Creeping chrysanthemum- quite deadly, especially if it catches you off guard, but frogs are eaten by humans, so probably pretty tasty and easy to prepare- 5/10

Desiccated skitter leaf- not very deadly at all, though it’s got almost no meat on it and probably tastes terrible - 1/10

Downy snagret- burrowing snagret but far less deadly and also smaller- 8/10

Mitite - harmless, probably tastes of crab, and can be prepared as such, just remove the shell- 8/10

Pyroclasmic slooch - wear a fireproof outfit and hit it from behind and it’s easy enough to kill, I would imagine it comes pre-cooked from the giant fire on its back, probably tastes fine - 6/10

Red spectralid- like the white one but spicy- 5/10

Skitterleaf- like the desiccated one but harmless and probably tastier- 4/10

Scutterchuck- a bit deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing, hard shell that needs to be removed before eating, tastes fine - 5/10

Swooping snitchbug- harmless by itself, though annoying to hunt and can fly, easy to prepare and seems tasty enough- 5/10

Waddlequaff- annoying to hunt, shell that needs removing, tastes ehh - 4/10

Yellow spectralid- spectralid but sweet- 5/10

one quastion for the people: which of these thangs do you think would be easiest to eat if you were tiny and not person-sized