Dipodomys compactas True, 1889 . Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 11:160.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Texas, Cameron Co., Padre Island .

DISTRIBUTION: Mainland, Padre and Mustang Isis of S Texas (USA) and barrier islands of N Tamaulipas (Mexico).

SYNONYMS: largus Hall, parvabullatus Hall, sennetti J. A. Allen.

COMMENTS: Considered distinct from ordii by Johnson and Selander (1971), Schmidly and Hendricks (1976), and Baumgardner and Schmidly (1981). Hall (1981:565) provisionally listed this species as a subspecies of ordii . Reviewed by Baumgardner (1991, Mammalian Species, 369).