Thread:Marcusbwfc/@comment-5889551-20180811193910/@comment-4370375-20180828202840

KrytenKoro wrote: Right. The game is explicitly stating that the Dots count as species, by the language we use from the DRB. That is not comparable to Ciel in the slightest and you know it. Ciel's status as a species was established outside of Hacker's Memory before the game was even released whereas these the Dots exist exclusively within the DS Story games.

They're not even acknowledged by the art book for the Story which acknowledged Chronomon Destroyer Mode, Armamon, and the Eaters.

As mentioned before, just because they're treated as species in-game does not make them legitimate species outside of it for the same reason Basarios and Gravios are not canonically separate species in Monster Hunter despite being depicted as such in Stories.