The tag alias #55400 velarax -> voxatal has been rejected.

Reason: velarax was a typo of voxatal which led to other posts using the same, FA links lead to the same page with the correct name

EDIT: The tag alias velarax -> voxatal (forum #321010) has been rejected by @bitWolfy.

How in the world can you mistype "voxatal" as "velarax"?..

jonnyawsom3 said:
...FA links lead to the same page with the correct name

Unless you're seeing something I'm not, only three of the twelve posts have FA links with a character name. The three are: post #2874006: Valerax, post #3034324: Voxatal, and post #2880328: Vox. Nothing conclusive there.

All twelve of the posts DO have the same commissioner listed in the source--StarHydra on furaffinity. So StarHydra probably owns the character(s).

Looking at StarHydra's "gallery" on FA, there are indeed 9 posts which identify a hydra as Voxatal, and none as Velarax. But if you look at the "scraps" (which is apparently different from gallery?) you also find these posts:
Velarax showing off by StarHydra -- Fur Affinity (dot) net
Velarax lounging by StarHydra -- Fur Affinity (dot) net
Extra Thicc Vela by StarHydra -- Fur Affinity (dot) net
Extra Large Vela by StarHydra -- Fur Affinity (dot) net
Extra Large Vela pt2 by StarHydra -- Fur Affinity (dot) net
Which is pretty unambiguous. Unless we get word of god from StarHydra or a better source from OP, these are separate characters.

Maybe OP is a little confused. There was one post where a typo in the source (valerax instead of velarax) was copied from Fur Affinity to e621: post #2874006. I fixed that, and there is no need for an alias.

matrixmash said: . . .

It's confusing, since the two characters look pretty much identical.
I've no idea what the issue with names is.

I am reasonably certain that this is the character owner's account on e621, and they used both tags.

bitwolfy said: ...

They do look the same... They are identical down to the number and alignment of the fins on the head. And they're not internally consistent: some of the Velarax images have horns and others don't. A lot of it seems to be artist style, too, like size and shape of feet and presence/absence of scales.

Velarax seems to be explicitly female? And Voxatal, while frequently tagged as "any gender/other" by StarHydra, is depicted as male while having sex. So maybe they're genderbent versions of each other, and cannot be distinguished when the pp/vagoo is not visible. I will ask this in a shout on StarHydra's FA. I'll bump this in six months if I don't get an answer.

They are separate characters of the same species. One is male the other is Female.

voxthestarhydra said:
They are separate characters of the same species. One is male the other is Female.

Thank you very much for clearing up the confusion.

The tag alias velarax -> voxatal (forum #321010) has been rejected by @bitWolfy.

voxthestarhydra said:
They are separate characters of the same species. One is male the other is Female.

Wow! That was prompt lol. Thanks a bundle.