Comprehensive Italian Annotated Bibliography on Albacore (Thunnus alalunga, Bonnaterre, 1788)

The Italian scientists have a long tradition of studies and research on albacore (Thunnus alalunga). This species is one of the most important for the Italian fishery for many centuries, even if it was often neglected. This is an attempt to list together the many papers published so far by Italian scientists, concerning the biology of this species, the fisheries, and many other scientific and cultural issues. The aim is to provide an annotated bibliography, with specific keywords in English, for making available all these documents independently from the original language of the text. So far, we found 378 papers on albacore but the bibliography is surely incomplete, because of the many papers published over the years in many places. This bibliography, updated till 2020, was set together to serve the scientists and to help them in finding some rare references that might be useful for their work.