Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6050823-20131209045547/@comment-11685710-20131211170353

Hellwolf, that doesn't explain, why the normal Lagiacrus turns a little darker, when he's on land for a short time.

It's pretty stupid, that Capcom just said, they're the same species. As Democide said, it COULD make sense for Ivory and normal Lagia, but an animal, that's adapted to live on land could NEVER turn into some super-specialised deap-sea monster (he's got those more fin-like feet, luminescent body parts as many real-life fish in deap-sea and most likely some modification for breathing underwater, wich he does).

I think about Ivory as an more experienced Lagaicrus, that decided to live and hunt on land though and I think, that's more or less the "best" explanation for it.