White-toothed woodrats build their den systems among the desert canyons and rocky washes of the Trans-Pecos, Big Bend National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and the Davis Mountains, piling sticks, cactus pads, and debris into crevices for protection. Of 242 Texas records, nearly all come through GBIF rather than iNaturalist, pointing to specimen and survey work rather than casual photos of a mostly nocturnal rodent that dens by day.
Records run fairly steadily through the year with a late-spring and early-summer bump in May and June, though on this dataset that reads more like survey timing than a confirmed activity peak. NatureServe ranks the species secure (S5) in Texas, consistent with its broad Trans-Pecos range.
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