Snavian family

The snavian family consists of serpent-bird chimeras that often burrow underground.

Aero Snagret
This creature is like the Pileated Snagret except that it has a pair of wings and has twice the health and defense. Its feathers are yellow and its body is red. The Aero Snagret always stays airborne, high enough that only Yellow Pikmin can reach it. The Aero Snagret attacks by divebombing Pikmin and can snatch up to ten Pikmin at once. The Aero Snagret may also choose to fake a divebomb. The only way to attack the Aero Snagret is to coax it into divebombing into a wall, causing its beak to become stuck and boulders to fall from the sky due to the quaking caused by the impact. Purple Pikmin can be used to stun the creature to delay it from freeing itself, and the occasional bomb-rock that falls from the ceiling along with the boulders can be used to inflict even more damage to it.

Balden Snagret


It has all the might to take down any opposing force. As it is fought, a lily pad must be ridden while avoiding its attacks. Tike then climbs a tree as he calls Alice for help. He tells her to send in an escape pod for both of them. Once Tike climbs to the top of the tree, Alice swoops down in her escape pod to pick up Tike. During the beginning of the battle, the Balden Snagret attempts to fly up to and attack the escape pod. Multitasking must be put into use during this moment: avoid its attacks and charge a shot to attack the bird using the cannon attached to the escape pod. Once it is hit, the Balden Snagret will fall and land in a location that was once visited, usually the Pikmin's previous Onion location before finding Green Pikmin.

Burrowing Snagret


The Burrowing Snagret is an enemy in the Pikmin games that hides underground, waiting to burst out when Pikmin approach. They are able to quickly snap up Pikmin on the ground with their beaks. Although the Snagret's whole body is vulnerable, it sustains most damage when its head is attacked. When killed, it explodes, yielding many Pellets in Pikmin, leaving only its head in Pikmin 2, and leaving the entire corpse in Pikmin 3. In the second game, they are smaller and have lower health, making them less of a threat, and in Pikmin 3, if they miss a peck, their beak gets stuck in the ground momentarily.

Burrowing Snarrow


This is a creature that was mentioned by Olimar in Pikmin, but has not been seen in any game yet. It was recorded by Olimar to look almost exactly like a Burrowing Snagret, however it can be told apart by the presence of wing and tail markings when it is pulled from the ground, which the Burrowing Snagret lacks, as well as the Snagret having a blue feather hue that the Snarrow does not. Even though its family is unknown, its relation to the other members of the Snavian family make it likely that that is its classification. In an early trailer for, a Snagret-like enemy can be seen emerging from the ground, but it is colored almost entirely white (see image).

Cobalt Snarror
The Cobalt Snarror is a creature that looks like a fat, shiny-blue Burrowing Snagret which has teal gems encrested on its head, above mask-like plumage, and has a slight portion of its tail sticking out of the ground.

Cosmic Snagret
The Cosmic Snagret is a variant of Snagret that seems to originate from beyond the Pikmin Planet. This creature bears great resemblance to the Pileated Snagret, except for a variation in color. However, this Snagret has much more devastating attacks. This beast can be found on the final floor in the Hole of Terrors. Apart from the usual eating Pikmin, this Snagret can shoot a beam of pure starlight which incinerates any type of Pikmin. As well as this, the Cosmic Snagret can produce a black hole from it's beak, which attempts to suck in Pikmin; but this can be countered by running in the opposite direction.

Croaking Snarrow


The Croaking Snarrow is the main boss from the "Rooster's nest" of Bounty Canopy. It has a red body covered in scales, with a small set of black-feathered wings. Its head strongly resembles that of a Rooster, with white feathers, a long yellow beak, and a red snood and "lashes". It is the only Snarrow specimen to be seen in the games, and only boss that summons other boss creatures.

Death Spiked Burrowing Snagret


These are Snagrets that have been infected by a DeathSpike Fragment. They usually appear where there is soft ground, such as dirt, sand, and loose ash. They are found in a variety of environments. If it gets its beak stuck in the ground, it will burrow back underground. It can catch thrown Pikmin in the air.

Dino Snagret


It has a green body with orange plummage and an orange beak. Its beak is more jagged and has serrated edges all around it. It can snatch up more Pikmin and at a faster rate. Fortunately, only two are encountered.

Dwarf Sea Snagret
Dwarf Sea Snagrets are the young of the Sea Snagret. They bare a striking resemblance to the Puckering Blinnow, though display their snavian characteristics through a beak. Independent, they're born completely on their own, without parental guidance. While they group into independence, they begin life in groups, often on patrol.

Dwarf Snagret
They are similar to other snavians in that they start underground and can reappear anywhere, however, they have little health. When they die, they come out of the ground, lay down, and coil up into a spiral. About fifteen Purple Pikmin can easily take this creature out if thrown anywhere on its body. They have yellow bodies and red heads, and look basically like Burrowing Snagrets.

Dwarf Snarrow
To sum it up, the Dwarf Snarrow is the juvenile form of a full-grown Burrowing Snarrow. Young are born without feathers, and a set of feather-less limbs alongside its body help it move around. It is unable to burrow by itself yet, but still attacks whatever creature is smaller than it.

Electric Snagret
The Electric Snagret is a close relative of the Burrowing Snagret. It looks and behaves very much like the Burrowing Snagret, but it has blue facial markings and a green stripe near the tip of its beak. It is shielded by an electrical current, meaning only Yellow Pikmin can harm it.

Frosty Snagret
The Frosty Snagret is a Burrowing Snagret with a red body and blue head. It Eats pikmin like its predecessor, but it can also breath chilly air that can freeze and kill Pikmin.

Half-Snagret


The Half-Snagret is a superbly deadly creature that lives in the Cloaking Field, skulking in the area's long grass. It is a huge green snavian that can move and strike Pikmin at amazingly fast speeds. Although the patches of long grass may appear to provide shortcuts to different sections of Cloaking Field, safely passing through it is made near impossible due to this beast.

Hydra Snagret
The Hydra Snagret has multiple heads.

Leaping Snagret
The Leaping Snagret lives in quicksand pits and dry, cracked ground. When Leaders or Pikmin tread over its territory, it will dive out of the ground and fall back in, eating any Pikmin it can get. It looks like a Burrowing Snagret, only its head is red and it has to large spikes on the top and bottom of its head, facing backward. Sometimes, when it is diving out of the ground, it will get stuck and can be swarmed. If it's in quicksand, throwing a Tan Pikmin in to solidify it will launch it out and it will start flopping, much like a Wogpole out of water, until it finds more quicksand to burrow into. Any part of the Leaping Snagret can be attacked.

Mecha Snagret
The creature has an appearance similar to the Burrowing Snagret and shares some behavioral characteristics with it, but it has been fused with mechanical components that enhance its lethality. The Mecha Snagret's head has an advanced laser system that points where it's going to shoot, similar to the Man-at-Legs. Its system is controlled by liquid energy that changes color depending on its attack that it is going to use. The Mecha Snagret also has a rust-proof cannon inside its mouth where it expels its attacks.

Mol Snagret
It is similar in appearance to the Burrowing Snagret but it lacks pupils and has a drill-like beak. This beak is used to impale, eat, replant, or bury Pikmin. When a Pikmin is replanted, it retains its maturity and can be plucked, but when a Pikmin is completely buried, it dies.

Pileated Snagret


The Pileated Snagret is a larger, rarer, and more dangerous species of the Snavian family. It has a green, scaly body, and a bright orange head. It is called "pileated" because it has a crest of feathers on its head, and its eyes are decorated by some eyebrow-like features. The Pileated Snagret behaves much like the Burrowing Snagret, but it is able to completely emerge from the ground and hop around on one clawed foot. This means it can chase its prey, and makes its head harder to reach.

Regal Snagret
It has a head at both ends of its body. Most of its body is buried underground. One of the heads is larger than the other and has tufts of feathers that resemble a crown. It is turquoise in color and forms a u-shape.

Royal Snagret
The Royal Snagret looks like a Burrowing Snagret, except that its scales are royal purple, and its head is normal purple. It also wears a crown.

Sea Snagret
The Sea Snagret is a fully aquatic snavian species, and the final boss of the Saltwater Swamp. The appearance resembles a typical Burrowing Snagret, with blue scales running along its body and a bird-like head, yet with a fin on the end of its tail resembling a shark's tail, and black rings running down its body. It only comes out after the gate to its arena is opened.

Snagmin


Snagmin are Burrowing Snagrets that have been infected by the same parasitic Pikmin that made the Bulbmin. They are usually found in damp places and can only be used in caves. The parent will look like a typical snagret except it swims in the ground with its neck up. Once the mother is killed the other Snagmin will follow the Leaders. The most Burrowing Snagmin that can be found in a squad is twenty.

Snagret Chick
The Snagret Chick is the infant form of the Burrowing Snagret, much like how the Bulborb Larva is an infant form of many Grub-dog species. Its head is covered in fluffy down feathers that scatter around when it shakes its head, and its body is covered in off-white scales. It can eat Pikmin, but only one at a time.

Subnautical Snagret
The Subnautical Snagret is a snavian that has adapted to live underwater. It is similar in appearance to the Burrowing Snagret but has a tube over its beak and bubbles over its eyes.

Titan Snagret


This snagret is sometimes said to be the king of snagrets in the current area, this is distinguished by their purple feathers as apposed to the normal blue-ish.

White-Tipped Burrowing Snarrow
This species of snavian still bears the functional wings passed down to it from its ancestors. As for attacks, it is able to breathe fire from its mouth, divebomb leaders and Pikmin, and generate strong gusts of wind by flapping its wings.

Winged Snagret


The Winged Snagret is a rare snavian that is more a bird than a snake. They have purple feathers, but they have vibrant highlights decorating certain parts of their bodies.