Nils Hjalmar Odhner
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Nils Hjalmar Odhner (1884–1973) was a Swedish zoologist who studied mollusks, a malacologist. During his lifetime he was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Taxa
Species named in honor of this malacologist include:
- The White-Knight Nudibranch Doris odhneri (MacFarland, 1966)
- Tritonia nilsodhneri Marcus, 1983
- Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 322 marine species named by Odhner. Many of these have become synonyms. [1]
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