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.

[5] Gazella marica was traditionally recognised as a subspecies, but has been identified as a species in 2011.

[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]