The leopard flounder is found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and western Pacific oceans, from the Red Sea and the eastern coast of Africa (from Mozambique to Tanzania) to the central Pacific ocean, including Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Maldives, the Mascarene islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) and Indonesia.

In the western Pacific, the leopard flounder occurs from southern Japan, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea to the Samoa islands, Hawaii, New Caledonia and French Polynesia.

The leopard flounder is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The leopard flounder appears in the IUCN Red List since 2016 within the category Least Concern !