User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Monster Hunter Portable 3rd/@comment-2214216-20101007170755/@comment-2214216-20101007192156

thanks for all the answers, and i know how many subspecies of each there is in the game (i did not know about rajang thought, i still HR8) what i meant was:

"why only rathian and rathalos have 3 different color versions and not the other with 2 color variation?"

the how answers it was @ Lord Loss (thank you)

>>>Most monsters only have one colour-swap because one is flipping enough. The development team were REALLY stuck for ideas when they said: "I know... what about a third subspecies for Rathalos?" <<<