The goitered gazelle inhabits sands and gravel plains and limestone plateau.

[4] It runs at high speed, without the leaping, bounding gait seen in other gazelle species.

Several subspecies have been described, and four forms are distinguished, which used to be treated as separate monotypic species.

[6][1] Until recently, goitered gazelles were considered to represent a single, albeit polymorphic, species.

However, recent genetic studies show one of the subspecies, G. s. marica, is paraphyletic in respect to the other populations of goitered gazelles,[6][7]