I only recently noticed that some snake people are tagged as 'Lamia' and others 'Naga'. Is there a difference between the two definitions or could they be combined into one? (Naga is most fitting from my understanding)

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I got a little over-zealous with my clicking and don't know how to go back and change it.

A Lamia is specifically a creature with the top half of a woman and the bottom half of a snake. The top half of a Naga is an anthropomorphic snake, for comparison.

I think, anyway. I might be getting that confused.

Ryann said:
Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I got a little over-zealous with my clicking and don't know how to go back and change it.

This isn't a bad place for it, but I went ahead and stuck it in tags/wiki since it relates more to tagging than anything.

Roughly speaking:

naga = snake but has arms (anthro snake tophalf/feral snake bottomhalf)
lamia = bottom-half is like a feral snake, but the top-half is non-snake anthro (or human). [This tag is somewhat like a snake version of how taurs work].

The wikis on each have some pretty good examples, though usage gets a little mixed sometimes. Just for future reference, if you're looking at a tag on an image, you can click the little '?' in front of the tag to get to the wiki for hopefully more information on how that tag works.

Learn the difference! It could save your penis.™

You see, that's what I thought.
Have a peruse through those tags though, that's not what they're used for. I came across the lamia tag only recently thinking 'Oh right, the half snake lady' but there are still the anthro-feral mix in there as well as the humanoid kind, hense my question.

Ryann said:
I came across the lamia tag only recently thinking 'Oh right, the half snake lady' but there are still the anthro-feral mix in there as well as the humanoid kind, hense my question.

On the first page this one looks like it is not a lamia: post #721079

The rest seem OK

this reminds me of the confusion the names kerberos and cerberus can sometimes cause (had me confused as to which was which for years till i went and checked wikipedia one day). one was latin, one was greek, but it wound up being 2 names for the same mythical creature.

in this case however, yeah, 2 different creatures with a main difference (1 is half human, the other isn't). yay, snake people, huh?