The populations are found near Australia, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly China and Oman.

It ranges from intertidal to offshore continental shelves down to 119 m. [4] The sharpnose guitarfish feeds on large shellfish and other invertebrates.

[4] Due to the distribution across the Indo-Pacific, the sharpnose guitarfish have experienced environmental pressures based on their habitat degrading and overfishing.

[6] The skin has fine denticles, with a midline, small patches near the eye, on the shoulder, and sometimes snout that are generally more visible with younger guitarfish.

[6] The long snout and rough skin texture that has more of a granular dorsally can help to correctly identify sharpnose guitarfish from similar species in their family.

[8] Also, elasmobranchs possess a lateral line that can detect hydrodynamic movements to spot prey or evade potential predators.

Sharpnose guitarfish exhibit an ovoviviparous reproductive lifestyle which is the embryos are in the form of eggs that remain within the mother until they're ready to hatch.

[6] With low reproductive rates and long gestation periods, the sharpnose guitarfish is vulnerable to being overfished which results in population decline.

[13] Assessing the true population of sharpnose guitar fish is challenging due to the lack of species-specific time-series and incorrect taxonomic identification.