User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: Subspecies/@comment-1011548-20121022102312/@comment-1011548-20121023100355

It raises the very interesting question of how you define a Subspecies. Does it have to have its own unique carve/s? Rusted Kushala doesn't, Hungry Jho does. Does the game refer to it as seperate? Because as far as I'm aware the quests for Rusted Kushala just tell you you're hunting a normal Kushala. Does it have to look different to its original counterpart? That's about the only criteria Rusty meets, but so does One-Eye Scarred Beak Garuga. It's weird.

Yeah, one week soon I'll have a whole DotW for monster variants + Hard Core monsters + Supremacy Monsters.