Career
During his lifetime he was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. He was the father of ambassador Bengt Odhner. Species named in honor of this malacologist include:
The White-Knight Nudibranch Doris odhneri (MacFarland, 1966)
Tritonia nilsodhneri Marcus, 1983
Bulimulus species november
"nilsodhneri"
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 490 marine species named by Odhner.
Many of these have become synonyms.
