#spectralids

[flamefireflower]

◦ ○ The Forest of Hope ○ ◦

Continuing with the Pikmin 1 areas~

[literallyjustabulborb]

RATING EVERY THING I'VE SEEN DAY SEVENTY: WHITE SPECTRALID

I SWEAR I'VE REVIEWED THIS ALREADY

0/10

[eidoloncoatl]

Spectralids ✨️ 🦋

[adridoot]

Piktober Day 24: freezing

thats one way to hunt!

[pik-zilla-124]

Olimar’s notes

[brosif40]

The urge to create my own pikmin creatures off of creatures i like irl

[lupisdarkmoon]

Sunshine and spectralids

[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]

have you guys every really looked at a spectralid

like what the fuck

[flamefireflower]

[Day 7 - Gildemandwee] Yippee! One full week into Piktober! And with such adorable little guys (and their not-so-little parent)! I like their design, although I wish the adult Gildemander was a tougher opponent. It just kind of... sits there, not doing much. Nevertheless, I do like them a lot!

[literallyjustabulborb]

RATING EVERY THING I'VE SEEN DAY THIRTY THREE: UNMARKED SPECTRALIDS

VERY PRETTY! BUT THEY'RE JUST FREE FOOD FOR THE PIKMIN. THEY EVEN GIVE THEM NECTAR SOMETIMES! SOMETIMES IT'S THIS WEIRD COLORED NECTAR THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT DOES BUT IT'S PROBABLY HELPFUL TO THE PIKMIN SO I DON'T LIKE IT!

1/10

[right-stopthat-its-silly]

Put a song for every letter in your url and tag the amount of people in your url!

Thank you very much for the tag @marcus-the-ant!! This one was super creative and fun to do, I enjoyed finding songs. Heavily based on stuff I've been listening to recently...I'm cursing making my username so long though, oof.

Rough Boys — Pete Townshend

I Don't Care Anymore — Phil Collins

Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) — Parliament

Higher Power — Boston

Teen Town — Weather Report

—

SOS — ABBA

The Reflex - Duran Duran

Open Sesame — Kool & The Gang

Pyramania — The Alan Parsons Project

The Sensual World — Kate Bush

Heart And Soul — Huey Lewis And The News

Apples (AKA Gino) — Buddy Rich Big Ban

The Great Gig in the Sky — Pink Floyd

—

If You Could Read Mind — Gordon Lightfoot

Tarkus (Eruption / Stones of Years / Iconoclast / Mass / Manticore / Battlefield / Aquatarkus) — Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Starship Trooper: Life Seeker / Disillusion / Wurm — Yes

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Stone of Sisyphus — Chicago

Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman — Kansas

Lawyers, Guns and Money — Warren Zevon

La Villa Strangiato — Rush

Your Smiling Face — James Taylor

I'm gonna tag all of these guys, only if you want to do it though (and haven't done it already lol), no pressure ofc: @thesuetyouforgot, @moccason, @yonderghostshistories, @commonguttersnipe, @kim-gil-chun, @sirrobinsminstrel, @gazeboo, @pete-townshend-is-the-eggman, @megalopolousity, @chrysochromulina, @livelongnprosperr, @lizardthirty, @pipsta, @starstruckfangirlsposts, @wetmatches, @pillmacwel, @spectralid, @transkenroy, @thegrapeless, @hansatorium, @michael-palin-is-the-loml

[descenacre]

The Dwarf Withered Blowhog spends its childhood on the ground, waddling the surface with vestigial legs it loses in adulthood. It hungrily scours for the petals of flowers, and the wings of spectralids, and sucks them all up! If threatened, it bursts away in a cloud of gas!

they can choke and die instantly btw

[mothnita]

extremely fucked up and evil the fact that they force me to kill the Mamutas :[

they just wanna tend to their garden and hum contently!! let them be happy!! let them frollic amongst the spectralids!!

[pik-zilla-124]

round floor with a single spectralid in the middle. not a boss floor.

Butterfly

[reflect-force]

the pikmin 4 jp website has some stuff on it that isn’t in the english one, including a section showing a bunch of enemies

(ignoring the enemies we already saw in trailers and screenshots) honeywisps, breadbugs, baldy long legs, swooping snitchbugs, red spectralids, and greater spotted jellyfloats are confirmed to be returning. and i think the thing below the fiery blowhog is a redesigned iridescent flint beetle

and skitter leaves, skutterchucks, bearded amprats and waddlepuses (waddlepi?) are returning too