Pethia bandula, commonly known as bandula barb, is a species of cyprinid endemic to Sri Lanka where it is only known from near Galapitamada in the Warakapola Divisional Secretariat.

[2][3] As this critically endangered species only was known from a single unprotected site where the population consists of an estimated 1,000 individuals, a second "insurance population" was established in 2014 by a team of IUCN scientists in cooperation with Sri Lanka's Forest Department, the Department of Wildlife Conservation and local communities.

[4] On 24 December 2018, National Geographic reported that the bandula barb was the 9,000th animal photographed for The Photo Ark by Joel Sartore.

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