Cyprinidae

Puntius madhusoodani

Puntius madhusoodani

Nine Point One Centimeters Carp of the Indian Ocean

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• South Asia
• Fusiform
• Small
• Tropical fish

Puntius madhusoodani is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae in Puntius genus. The species was discovered in 2010, described jointly by Krishnakumar, Benno Pereira & Radhakrishnan and a study first published in Biosystematica in 2012. It was collected from Manimala River in Kerala, India (Western Ghats region), which has a running length of only 92 km and empties into the Vembanad Lake.