Italian Annotated Bibliography of Tuna, Tuna-like and Billfish Species [electronic resource] / edited by Antonio Di Natale.

1 - Presentation and introduction -- 2 - Dedication (to Genevieve Corwin) -- 3 - Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) -- 4 - Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) -- 5 - Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on small tunas (or: on small tunas species, tbd) -- 6 - Comprehensive Italian annotated blibliography on tropical tunas species -- 7 - Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on swordfish, Xiphias gladius, Linnaeus, 1758 -- 8 - Comprehensive Italian annotated bibliography on Mediterranean spearfish, Tetrapturus belone, Rafinesque, 1810, and other Istiophoridae.

The Italian-annotated bibliography on tunas, tuna-like and billfish species is a sort of unicum, because for the very first time, it provides annotation in English for all papers published by Italian authors over the centuries in various languages. Taking into account that these species are an essential component of the Italian and Mediterranean culture, thousands of authors published a very high amount of papers since historical times, on various themes and subjects. These large fish species are nowadays not only essential elements of the marine trophic chain, but also important components of human seafood and the related fishery economy. This book makes all these papers internationally available for all scientists, helping them in their research activities and the annotations facilitate the searching work by species and keywords.