 The red gurnard can be found throughout many central tropical and temperate Indo-West Pacific waters (Elder, 1976).It is commonly found along the coasts of New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and many islands in the South Pacific.It is unsure whether or not previous records from Japan, Korea, China, and the Hawaiian Islands are mis-identifications (NIWA, 2012; Rainer & Reyes, 2019; Roberts, et al., 2015).