<div class="field field--name-field-common-name field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Splendid Flatworm

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Thnaks Moralcoral! you are absolutely right. it fits more with a flatworm ;-)

Found it! its a Splendid Flatworm Pseudoceros splendidus, its actually quite rare! good spot!

its similar to pseudobiceros gloriosus, but thats an indo-pacific species so trying to find the Carribean equivalent

Its a type of flat worm, not nudibranch from the phylum Platyhelminthes, these can free swim in the water colum, common on night dives, i got an id guide so ill try get the species for you.

I know its noway a Skate fish... but such marine slugs(or invertebrates) with pectoral fins are called Skate fish(it is wrong). So I marked second link.

Another possibility is that it is a baby sea hare (another type of mollusc).

Ashish, this is not a skate fish at all. I have seen many skate fishes in my diving since 2002 and trust me, they are not like this. this was only few cm long and it looked like a small version of the nudibranch spanish dancer, or otherwise a planaria. I still need to find the ID but for sure is not a vertebrate and is not a fish.

Its not fish but a marine slug... but look like and behave like a skate fish. They must small.

Its wings like pectoral fins are so different.. but like ray or manta... interesting... http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/mollusca/slugs/cephalaspidea/pilsbryiv1.htm

Type of Skate fish...