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What is a serpulid?

What is a serpulid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (zoology) Any member of the Serpulidae.
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The organism may have extended a filtering organ out of the single opening as a modern serpulid does from its tube.
As they grow, the shells may coil or meander over the substrate producing a tube that looks quite similar to a serpulid tube worm shell.
They include bivalves, brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, gastropods, a possible monoplacophoran, nautiloids and a possible serpulid or microconchid.
A gastropod and attached serpulid wormtube from the Pliocene of Cyprus.
Attached to the surface are coiled serpulid worm skeletons, muddy or chitinous tube worm casts up to 5 cm long, brittle starfish, and benthic foraminifera.

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