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  6. ›Minnows, Suckers, Carps, and Loaches
  7. ›Carps and Minnows
  8. ›Cyprinids
  9. ›Cape Carps
  10. ›Puntius
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Puntius madhusoodani

Puntius madhusoodani is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae in Puntius genus. The species has been discovered in 2010, named and 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. Puntius madhusoodani is named after Prof. Dr. B. Madhusoodana Kurup,...

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