User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Online Discussion/@comment-6050823-20161227072519/@comment-26034899-20161227222140

If anything, Barioth was closer to Blangonga than it was to Nargacuga; it has the same colouration and element the former along with the large amber fangs and a desert-dwelling subspecies while it only shared one or two attacks and the psuedo-wyvern build with the latter. If anything, Barioth was Blangonga's replacement, not Nargacuga's.