The species is named in honor of Oddgeir Alvheim who is a senior technician of the Nansen
program. Alvheim have had a long career as a senior research technician at the Institute of Marine Research.
He has participated in cruises connected with the Nansen program since the beginning of the 1980’s and was
the cruise leader on one of the GCLME surveys that provided material for this study. He has devoted his life to
field work off the coast of Africa and is among those people with the best general knowledge of the marine
fauna in Africa.