Mediterranean fish biodiversity: an updated inventory with focus on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas Author Psomadakis, Peter Nick Author Giustino, Stefano Author Vacchi, Marino text Zootaxa 2012 3263 1 46 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.280724 acca1d04-6b12-4f81-bd79-65aabf89abc2 1175-5326 280724 ISTIOPHORIDAE Makaira nigricans Lacepéde, 1802 , is known from the tropical and temperate waters of all the Atlantic excluding the Mediterranean ( Nakamura 1985 , 1986 ). However its presence as occasional transient in the Mediterranean is supposed on the basis of recorded sizes of two large billfishes (not preserved) captured at Gallipoli, Ionian Sea ( Bini, 1968 ) and Scilla, Strait of Messina ( Costa, 1991 ), respectively.