Burrowing Sand-nit

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The Burrowing Sand-nit is the largest species of Burrow-nit discovered so far. Its face is yellow in color with red glowing eyes and a large toothy mouth. Its tongue is tipped with red, while its tall spiky shell is dull pink with three purple "eyes" and a swirly marking. It also has several crab-like legs but these are rarely seen. Residing underground inside pits of sand built to suck prey in, the Sand-nit emerges when its trap is set off by something like a Pikmin or other small creature, opening its mouth and slowly crawling forward to catch the prey as it struggles to escape from the beast. If the prey somehow manages to escape the sand pit, the Sand-nit shoots its long stretchy tongue into the sand and, through vibrations manages to seek out the prey and harpoon it before it can see what's coming.

Battle
The Burrowing Sand-nit lurks inside the deepest, darkest sublevel of the Sand Lands, in a large pit of sand flowing downwards into the center. It waits for Olimar, Louie or a Pikmin to touch the rim of the trap and then it emerges. It starts by spitting spiky orbs that stun your Pikmin, but these are easily avoided. Any Pikmin that get hit by the orbs will most likely fall into the pit and be eaten by the Sand-nit. When this fails, the Sand-nit will start using its tongue attack. You are given a short visual cue of the ground above the tongue cracking and rising, giving you enough time to run. It will continue shooting its tongue at where you are currently standing, if you slow down you and your Pikmin will get hit, but if you run fast you'll be able to easily flee. After this, the Sand-nit will do a last resort attack and quickly charge up the sand-pit and eat any Pikmin in its path. If it misses, it gets knocked out for five seconds and you can attack it. After this, it will shake off any Pikmin attacking and repeat its strategy, getting faster and more accurate with its attacks when its health reaches the yellow. When killed, its face bubbles and melts off, and the shell sinks into the ground, revealing the Protective Gloves upgrade.

A faster, bluer version is fought in Final Frost.