There is nothing wrong with the "normal" label... haha. I don't know why we strive so hard to apply special labels to snakes sometimes.... it's a beautiful animal! Like I said I know of a locale where you can find this exact look. Borderline hypo and all. Even that same exact stripe. In fact Tom also gave me a field collected adult male that looked like this as well. It had a few kinks along it's spine though. Come to PA, and I will take you to a place where you can see more like this one! Also some of them have brilliant, salmon pink bellies. And sometimes I find them like this but without a dorsal. But same idea... weird and pale... no black. The beauty of "normal" thamnophis is that they are rarely normal at all. There is so much variation even within one subspecies, it is amazing. I would be proud to have that snake in my collection. But I would not go crazy trying to label it.