The reticulate whipray occurs widely in the Indo-Pacific, with a range extending from off eastern South Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, westward along the coast of the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, and reaching as far as Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands to the north, and New Guinea and northern Australia to the southeast. It has also colonized the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, i.e. it is a Lessepsian migrant, and it is now common in the south eastern Mediterranean. This species seems to be common only in Australian waters, where it occurs from Shark Bay to Brisbane.