User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Week: Abyssal Lagiacrus/@comment-6050823-20130930222929/@comment-5043481-20131003163352

It makes no sense at all. We should ignore capcom on these matters as they have no idea what they are talking about.

Also, I think it is unlikely Abyssal lagiacrus could eat plankton, as he would need some kind of filtering structure to seive them out of the water. In whales, the baleen in used. Also, ALL animals that do this have giant mouths to catch as much as possible. Abyssal lagia's mouth is no bigger than the ordinary species mouth. Also, plankton lives near the surface as it consists of plant plankton (which use light - no light in the abyss. And no, lagia does not make enough light to sustain them.) And animal plankton, which eat the plants.

Capcom's logic is self contradicting. Normal/Ivory lagia are predators. For abyssal to eat plankton it would need an internal filter, not compatible with meat eating, to get the plankton. Therefore, different species.