Exechonella ampullacea is known from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Specimen from North Direction Island, near Lizard Island, Queensland
Original description: Exechonella ampullacea Hayward & Ryland 1995
Locality: Heron Island, Queensland, Australia.
Holotype: QM G304975; Paratype: QM G304977.
Description from Hayward & Ryland, 1995.