Distribution
The ranges of the white-throated woodrat and its subspecies are from the southeastern corners of Nevada and California across southern Utah and all of Arizona to southwestern Colorado, across west Texas and south to central Mexico.
- Neotoma albigula albigula (Hartley) – Northern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona south along the east side of the Sierra Madre Oriental, to southern Coahuila, Mexico. Also central Texas to western Arizona, and south along the western side of the Sierra Madre Occidental to central Sonora
- Neotoma albigula brevicauda (Durrant) – Utah and Colorado
- Neotoma albigula durangae (J. A. Allen) – Southwestern Chihuahua and central Durango, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula laplataensis (F.W. Miller) – Utah, Colorado, and Arizona
- Neotoma albigula latifrons (Merriam) – Michoacán, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula leucodon (Merriam) – East of the Rio Grande in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma; Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Querétaro, Hidalgo, and southeastern Coahuila, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula mearnsi (Goldman) – Arizona
- Neotoma albigula melanura (Merriam) – Central Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula melas (Dice) – New Mexico
- Neotoma albigula robusta (Blair) – Texas
- Neotoma albigula seri (Townsend) – Northeastern Sonora, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula sheldoni (Goldman) – Northeastern Sonora, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula subsolana (Alvarez) – Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, and Coahuila, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula venusta (True) – Colorado River valley in western Arizona south to Sonora and Baja California, Mexico
- Neotoma albigula warreni – Colorado, Oklahoma, northeastern New Mexico, and Texas
In general, white-throated woodrats occupy desert grasslands, semiarid shrublands, saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) cactus communities, pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.) woodlands, interior ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa var. scopulorum) forests, and Madrean evergreen woodland (Pinus spp.-Quercus spp.).
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