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Ian T

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Hi everyone, found some interesting critters and need some help with id.

The first one is a nudi / slug / flatworm...(or something else)...unfortunately the pic is a little blurred...colors are similar to a Harlequin flatworm, a Rueppel's wart slug or a Wave wart slug, but patterns are all wrong..
Size is about 2.5cm (1 inch), pic is taken in the western Indian Ocean (Oman), depth is 24m

Second is from a night dive, depth 18m - same location as the one above. The darn thing turned just as I took the picture, but I can tell you the following (which you can't see from the picture), it's not a parrotfish, a sweetlip or a triggerfish...
size about 60cm (20 inches), height about 30cm (12inches), very narrow...
What throws me off are the markings on the body and the long dorsalfin...
Anyone?
 
The first looks like a Scrabbled Edd Nudibranch (Phyllidia varicosa), the second looks kind of like a Rabbitfish we have in the South Pacific. Marking are "Similar", but thats only a guess :)

Have a good one, Chad
 
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