User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Rare Species/@comment-3058100-20131204035416/@comment-8874090-20131204143808

I don't know. Crimson and white fatalis were always strange. They were never referred to by name in the game,  except on equipment. When you went to hunt them, it just said "hunt 1 fatalis". So, in a way, they're officialy not subspecies. (at least in F2 and FU. Don't know about frontier)