Apogonidae

Sunspot cardinal

Verulux solmaculata

Three black bars cross the nearly transparent front

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Verulux solmaculata, the sunspot cardinalfish, is a species of ray-finned fish from the cardinalfish family Apogonidae. It was first described in 2016 and it occurs in the Timor Sea off New Guinea and northern Western Australia. It is a small, almost transparent cardinalfish which has three black stripes on the anterior part of the body one from the tip of the snout to the front of the eye, one from the preopercular margin to the middle of the operculum, and one from the back edge of the eye to the angle of the preoperculum.