Variant Zombies and Animate Dead; has there been a Dev ruling on this?

[Yemeth]

To quote D20PFSRD.com

"The bloody skeleton and burning skeleton variants indicate that they are created by use of the animate dead spell but count as double their normal HD when doing so. The variant zombies listed below did not include any such information. It is left to the GM to determine if this rule is fair when creating the zombies below (unless someone alerts us to some official ruling by a Paizo source that is.)"

I'm going to be playing a serious necromancer type in an upcoming game, and was wondering if there was an answer to this. Anybody?

[DeltaOneG]

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Most zombies are created using animate dead. Such zombies are always of the standard type, unless the creator also casts haste or remove paralysis to create fast zombies, or contagion to create plague zombies.

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No rules I'm aware of to make other variants.

[Albatoonoe]

I believe that it is specifically stated for the Reanimator Alchemist that he can create variant zombies.

[Derek Vande Brake]

Given that there is no CR increase for variant zombies, as there is for the variant skeletons, I'd say you can make whatever types of zombie you want, provided you have the mentioned spells (haste, remove paralysis, contagion).