''Neoclinus nudus'' is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found in
coral reef
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s around
Okinawa Island
, officially , is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu (''Nansei'') Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. It is the smallest and least populated of the five Japanese archipelago, main islands of Japan. The island is ...
,
Japan
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, and
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
, in the northwest
Pacific
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ocean. Males can reach a maximum length of
SL, while females can reach a maximum length of .
References
* Stephens, J.S. Jr. and V.G. Springer, 1971 ''Neoclinus nudus, new scaleless clinid fish from Taiwan with a key to Neoclinus.'' Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 84 (no. 9): 65–72.
nudus
Fish described in 1971
Taxa named by Victor G. Springer
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