serpula (suomeksi)

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(lb, en, zoology) Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus ''Serpula'' and allied genera of the family ''(taxlink, Serpulidae, family, noshow=1)'' that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.