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Keelworm

This worm builds calcium tubes on hard surfaces like rocks, shells and even on crabs and lobsters!  So a wind turbine would make a fine home.  The worm never leaves its tube, and so to feed it pokes tiny hairs (cilia) out of a trapdoor at the end of the tube, and uses them to catch tiny food particles floating in the water.