Exist genuses?

[Barry Roth]

On Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:13:47 -0800, I myself wrote:

>I have just finished reading Nabokov's Blues: the Scientific Odyssey of a
>Literary Genius" by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates (1999, Zoland Books).
>The ... word "genus" is pluralized as "genuses."

Another oddment occurs on p. 49 of the same work:  the second word in a
species' binomial name -- i.e., the "specific epithet" -- is referred to as
the "species epitaph"!

The senior author of the book is a butterfly taxonomist.  My guess (and my
hope) is that he didn't see either the final manuscript or the proofs.

Barry Roth