User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-3298463-20151127144816/@comment-25119729-20151127163141

With these tentacles it looks most certanly like a cephalaopod. It also "swims" through the ground, even though that doesn't have to mean anything since other monsters can do that. It can also spray some fluid on you which then makes you covered in bone similiar to snowman/mud status.