''Neoclinus nudus'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in

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s around Okinawa Island, Japan, and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, in the northwest

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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 {{Chaenopsidae-stub