''Helicopsis conopsis'' is a species of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

, terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). M ...

, the hairy snails and their allies. This species is endemic to Morocco.

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* https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Aparicio-3/publication/336150433_Systematics_and_distribution_of_Helicopsis_Xeroleuca_in_Morocco_Mollusca_Gastropoda_Helicidae/links/5d933291299bf10cff1cff21/Systematics-and-distribution-of-Helicopsis-Xeroleuca-in-Morocco-Mollusca-Gastropoda-Helicidae.pdf Geomitridae Endemic fauna of Morocco Gastropods described in 1876 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Geomitridae-stub