Tarantox

Tarantox is a large spider-like creature who appears as the main boss of Space Junk Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy, it serves as the second/third-to-last boss of Fountain, and is overall the sixth(seventh if considering the Mandibug Stack) boss of the game.
==Profile==
===Physical description===
As it's name suggest, Tarantox is a three-eyed, toxic spider-like boss with a strip light and brown body, a long nose-like mouth and a pair of fly-like wings on its back, Tarantox has six white legs with black suction-cups like pads for feet and a selection of eight green bump-like dots, two on the sides of its body, one on its rear and three under Tarantox's belly.
== In Super Mario Galaxy ==
Tarantox resides on a large web in the Space Junk Galaxy while in a web-like shell/cocoon, Mario must use a Sling Pod at the shell/cocoon in to break it and reveal Tarantox, and at this point, the battle starts .
===Battle===
Mario must use a Sling Pod to aim himself at one of the green dots on either Tarantox's sides or rear and pop them and damage Tarantox, all the while avoiding the green slime spewed from Tarantox's mouth. It will turn upside-down so Mario must dash all three red bumps on its belly. 
In the second phase, the fight remains the same except now Taranox can spew out slime from both the mouth and sides of him. So the safe way to damage it is by attacking Tarantox's rear, and it must be damaged again from its stomach to defeat it. Once all three of Tarantox's bumps have been taken out, it falls off the web into the depths of space. However, his fate's was unknown. He has not appeared in any Mario games since.
==Behind the scenes==
=== Etymology ===
Its name is a portmanteau of "toxic" and "tarantula".
== Trivia ==
* Tarantox was the second boss to have the same music with Dino Piranha. The third boss next to use the music is Fiery Dino Piranha.
*Scientifically, Tarantox is not a spider at all, or even an arachnid, because he has six legs and wings, making him an insect. However, Scuttle Bugs (widely considered to be the Mushroom Kingdom version of a spider) have four legs, instead of eight like a real spider.
**Due to Tarantox's design of having six legs and a pair of tiny wings, its possible that Tarantox is a gigantic fly, or maybe even a cross between one.
*Tarantox is the first of the six non-Bowser bosses of Super Mario Galaxy to have more then three-hit points, having eight in total, the next six bosses that fallows this trend are Bouldergeist, Bowser Jr., Major Burrows, Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser, Kingfin and all three fights agents Bowser. 
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