Bulinus abyssinicus is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.

The specific name abyssinicus is after Abyssinia, which was the historic name for the Ethiopian Empire, where its type locality is.

The distribution of Bulinus abyssinicus includes the Lower Valley of the Awash, Ethiopia and Somalia.

[1] The type locality is "southern Abyssinia",[2] which means the Ethiopian Empire, now Ethiopia.

[3] This small snail resides in marshes and in pools.