Thread:FinalHunter97/@comment-44159740-20191018021011/@comment-31029678-20191018092036

Fish was considered a Small Monster in MH3, just like Jaggi, Giggi and such. Endemic life of World is considered as another different group... it would fit the Minor Monsters group much better.

By the way, spin-off doesn't necessarily mean "not canon", in some franchises it is, in other not... it's something decided by devs or authors, it's not an universal law. Not to mention that Capcom has a really strange way to classify main games (MH1, 2,3,4,World)... all the rest as far as we know are spin-offs with different levels of canonicity.