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Pure breed of aquqflame Which [ of C.c.collaris and C.c.baileyi ] is it?
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It has been mentioned here before, that "Aquaflame" is simply a name coined by Dr. Thomas Jones to describe some of his breeding stock of C. collaris that he has collected from an undisclosed area. The males are extremely aquamarine blue, with flame orange or yellow heads and throats.

To answer your question more directly, the aquaflames are describing C. collaris, not baileyi. The baileyi can have some nice yellow on their heads and legs, but they will exhibit a blue throat, and not yellow as is seen in collaris.

John Eddington

In Japan, it is recognized as C.collaris baileyi being more beautiful from C.collaris collaris.
Other keeper will surely ask, "Is it C.c.baileyi?", if aquaflame which I keep is seen.
I answer "It is C. c.collaris ."However, it was not confident.
It can have confidence and can answer after this "It is C. c.collaris."

Thank you John.

Just wonderful pictures, Beuatiful lizards ! Eve

Thank you. eve.
I am going to upload aquaflame produced this year in the near future. By all means,
please see.

As John said, the "pure Aquaflame" is a marketing name for lizards produced by a certain breeder. It has sort of fallen into use as a description for collared lizards that display the aqua blue/torquoise body coloration with a yellow/orange head and dewlap. The subspecies C. c. baileyi (and all other subspecies) of Crotaphytus have been done away with, so these former subspecies (C. c. auriceps, C. c. baileyi, C. c. fuscus, and C. c. melanomaculatus) have all been synonymized with C. collaris, which now having no subspecies, is simply C. collaris, no longer C. collaris collaris. So, an "aquaflame" is a color variant of C. collaris.

DC
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I've got the blues...LOL...them screamin' yellow-head blues...

Thank you for information. DC.
I did not know that the subspecies was abolished.
Does the difference in old subspecific color call it the difference in the color by the habitat?