User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-1937266-20150802090537/@comment-25516746-20150802165518

There will probably be subspecies. Remember in MH4 none were shown until people had the game and started discovering them. Every game has had subspecies except Tri, but that was a special case with Capcom wanting to go back to basics and the game being basically a reboot of the whole series.