Elips family

The elips family consists of aquatic creatures strongly resembling different species of often exotic fish.

Aureate Blinnow
Living in shaded waters, Aureate Blinnows are renowned for their golden color. However, they are extremely skittish, propelling themselves using ink to escape predation.

Chompi


Chompis are small, purple, barracuda-like members of the elips family. They can quickly devour Pikmin, and if one happens to catch a leaders in its mouth and begin chewing them, the Chompi will spit them back out alongside any Pikmin currently in its mouth.

Floundering Crass


The Floundering Crass is a bass-like creature with a green body and a brown underbelly. When a group of Pikmin are traveling on land around a pool that a Floundering Crass is inhabiting, the Floundering Crass will either spit large balls of water onto the group or jump out of the water and begin flopping around on the ground, planting any Pikmin caught underneath it. In the water, it will begin to stalk the group of Pikmin in a similar fashion similar to that of a Spotty Bulbear and it will eat one to five Pikmin at a time.

Puckering Blinnow


The Puckering Blinnow is a small, colorful fish enemy. It has two large yellow eyes with purple irises, which are each nearly as big as its head. It is light blue with dark blue stripes on its top and spots on its sides and has a green fin spreading from its bottom to its back. It has a long snout, which, when viewed from the front, makes the enemy appear as if it is puckering, hence the name. It is about three times the width and half of the height of a leader, having a quite narrow appearance. Some Puckering Blinnows have spiky teeth lining their gums.

Suction-Cup Blinnow
The Suction-Cup Blinnow is a species of elips that appears as a normal Puckering Blinnow, before opening it´s mouth to reveal a suction-like tongue that sucks in any pikmin in it´s path.

Tropical Blinnow


The Tropical Blinnow is a slightly larger relative to the Puckering Blinnow. They are a species of Elips that was to appear in Hey! Pikmin, but remained unused.

Vortexive Paimourse
The Vortexive Paimourse is an Elips that resembles an arapaima. Lurking in marshes, it uses powerful suction forces in its throat to suck up Pikmin directly in front of it, akin to the Vehemoth Phosbat, but with less range.