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 study first published in Biosystematica in 2012 . It was collected from Manimala River in Kerala, India (Western Ghats region), with a running length of 92 km only and it empties into the Vembanad Lake. Puntius madhusoodani is Named after Prof. Dr. B. Madhusoodana Kurup, as an honour for his contribution towards the taxonomy and conservation of freshwater fishes of Kerala