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{{species infobox
{{character-infobox
|image=[[File:SnorkelSnake.png|250px]]<br>The Snorkel Snake as it appears in ''Yoshi's Story''
|title=Snorkel Snake
|image=[[File:SnorkelSnake.PNG|250px]]<br>The Snorkel Snake as it appears in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''
|first_appearance=''[[Yoshi's Story]]'' ([[List of games by date#1997|1997]])
|first_appearance=''[[Yoshi's Story]]'' ([[List of games by date#1997|1997]])
|variants=[[Mr. Eel]]
|species=[[Mr. Eel]]}}
|relatives=[[Dragoneel]]}}
[[File:YSSnorkelSnake.png|frame|left]]
[[File:YSSnorkelSnake.png|frame|left]]
The '''Snorkel Snake''',<ref>{{cite|author=Leung, Jason, Terry Munson, and Scott Pelland|title=''Yoshi's Story'' Player's Guide|page=11|date=1998|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite|language=en-us|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/19991021230157/http://www.yoshisstory.com/page5-1.html|title=''Yoshi's Story'' official website|publisher=Nintendo of America|accessdate=June 22, 2024}}</ref> also called the '''Snorkle Fish''',<ref name=fish>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/19990508193347/http://www.yoshisstory.com/5-1.html|title=''Yoshi's Story'' official website|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|accessdate=June 22, 2024}}</ref> is a serpentine enemy that appears in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. It resembles a large white serpentine creature with green spikes and a large fin for a tail. Its head is a large ball with red eyes, flippers, and a spout for a mouth. Snorkel Snake have smaller variants named [[Mr. Eel]]s. While identified as a snake in English and an eel in Japanese, it more closely resembles a giant {{wp|pipefish}}, particularly due to the mouth. The Snorkel Snake can be seen swimming on the [[P. 5-Ocean|Ocean page]], and it is found in a single area of the level [[Lots O'Jelly Fish]], where it waits for a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] to [[swim]] nearby. When it spots them, it swims in circles around them, attempting to enclose them within its spiky body; since Yoshis cannot throw [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]]s underwater, the Snorkel Snake is effectively invincible. However, its body is not long enough for it to make a complete circle, allowing the Yoshis to escape if encircled.
The '''Snorkel Snake'''<ref>Leung, Jason, Terry Munson, and Scott Pelland. ''Yoshi's Story'' Player's Guide. Page 11.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991021230157/http://www.yoshisstory.com/page5-1.html ''Yoshi's Story'' official website (Wayback Archive)]. Retrieved April 23, 2015.</ref>, also called "'''Snorkle Fish'''"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990508193347/http://www.yoshisstory.com/5-1.html ''Yoshi's Story'' official website (Wayback Archive)]. Retrieved April 22, 2015.</ref>, is an [[List of enemies|enemy]] that appears in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. It resembles a large, white serpentine creature with green spikes and a large fin for a tail. Its head is a large ball with red eyes, flippers, and a spout for a mouth. While identified as a snake in English and an eel in Japanese, it more closely resembles a giant {{wp|pipefish}}, particularly due to the mouth.


==Profiles and statistics==
The Snorkel Snake can be seen swimming on the world map of the Ocean, and is found in a single area of the level [[Lots O'Jelly Fish]], where it waits for the [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] to swim nearby. When it spots them, it will swim in circles around them, attempting to enclose them within its spiky body; since Yoshis cannot throw [[Yoshi Egg|egg]]s underwater, the Snorkel Snake is effectively invincible. However, its body is not long enough for it to make a complete circle, and there will always be an opening for the player to quickly swim out of.
*'''Website bio:''' ''Swimming in circles that grow ever-tighter, The Snorkle Fish is a prickly Yoshi-smiter.''<ref name=fish/>
 
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 「長いからだはトゲだらけ。おまけにあとを追ってくる。なんてこった!」 ("''Their long body is covered in thorns. In addition, it will follow you. What the heck!''")<ref name=Sho/>
==Trivia==
*A similar enemy called [[Dragoneel]] appears in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', which also tries to encircle players with their bodies. It even uses the Snorkel Snake's Japanese name as a file name, showing it is directly based upon it.


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=ウナボン<ref name=Sho>{{cite|page={{file link|Yoshi Story Shogakukan P6.jpg|6}}|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|title=「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')}}</ref>
|Jap=ウナボン<ref>[[Media:Yoshi Story Shogakukan P6.jpg|「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), page 6.]]</ref>
|JapR=Unabon
|JapR=Unabon
|JapM=Portmanteau of「{{hover|鰻|ウナギ}}」(''unagi'', eel) and「坊」(''bon'', Japanese affectionate suffix for "boy")<!--"bon" is one of the two spellings of the common "bō" suffix, it is not a typo or anything else. https://www.japandict.com/%E5%9D%8A -->
|JapM=From {{wp|unagi}}
|Ger=Drehwutz<ref>{{cite|title=Nintendo 64 ''Yoshi's Story'' Spieleberater|page=20|language=de|publisher=Nintendo of Europe}}</ref>
|GerM=From "drehen" (to revolve)
}}
}}
==Trivia==
*The Snorkel Snake bears a resemblance to the [[Dragoneel]], which was introduced in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' and also tries to encircle players with its body. The Snorkel Snake's Japanese name, "Unabon," is used as a file name for the Dragoneel, suggesting this resemblance may have been intentional.


==References==
==References==
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{{Yoshi's Story}}
{{Yoshi's Story}}
[[Category:Fish]]
[[Category:Eels]]
[[Category:Yoshi's Story enemies]]
[[Category:Yoshi's Story Enemies]]
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