Education
Ph.D. (Cantab.) Zoology, University of Cambridge,BSc., ARCS Zoology, Imperial College, University of London
Dr. Anthony Rylands began his career studying primates in the Amazon and Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil. Since 1996, he has served as deputy Chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, and has increasingly focused his work on the objectives of the specialist group—networking, coordinating, and publishing on themes that focus on the conservation of threatened primates worldwide. He manages a small grants program, the Primate Action Fund, is editor of the journal Primate Conservation and of a primate field guide series promoted by the specialist group, and he maintains a taxonomic and conservation status database for the more than 700 primate species and subspecies now recognized.
From 1977 to 1982, Anthony carried out pioneer field studies of the behavior and ecology of marmosets and lion tamarins, which he presented to the University of Cambridge for his doctoral thesis. He was subsequently coordinator for three years (1983-1986) of the sub-project, Primates of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (DBFF), in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund – US. These were early days for the science of conservation biology and the sub-project examined particularly the survival of primates in forest patches of different sizes surrounded by cattle pasture. In 1986, he was appointed professor of vertebrate zoology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and there collaborated in the creation of Brazil’s first graduate course in conservation biology. From 1993, Anthony was also an associate scientist for Conservation International’s Brazil Program, working with staff there on the development of conservation strategies such as biological corridors for the Amazon and Atlantic forest.
In 2000, Anthony moved to Washington, DC, to join Conservation International (CI) in its newly founded Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, acting as senior director for Conservation Biology. In 2009, he was appointed senior research scientist to work directly, as deputy-chair of IUCN’s Primate Specialist Group, with the then-president of CI, Russell Mittermeier, and, as such, involved full time with primate conservation initiatives around the world. Anthony is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, and has edited 12 books, and authored more than 300 articles and book chapters on protected areas and primate behavior, ecology, conservation, distributions and taxonomy. His next major ambition is to edit a field guide for the Neotropical primates, compiling and summarizing the immense amount of new information on their diversity and geographic ranges.
Publications
Boubli JP, Byrne H, da Silva MNF, Silva-Júnior J, Costa Araujo R, Bertuol F, Gonçalves J, Melo FR, Rylands AB, Mittermeier RA, Silva FE, Nash SD, Canale G, Alencar R de M, Rossi R, Carneiro J, Sampaio I, Farias IP, Schneider H, Hrbek T (2019). On a new species of titi monkey (Primates: Plecturocebus Byrne et al., 2016), from Alta Floresta, southern Amazon, Brazil. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 117–137.
Hart JA, Detwiler KM, Alempijevic D, Lokasola A, Rylands AB (2019). Dryas monkey Cercopithecus dryas. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T4216A17947691.
Talebi M, Melo F, Rylands AB, Ferraz D da S, Ingberman B, Mittermeier RA, Martins M, Jerusalinsky L (2019). Brachyteles arachnoides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T2993A17927228.
Pilbrow V, Rylands AB (2019). The contributions to primatology of Colin P. Groves (1942–2017): Co-recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Primatological Society, 2018. International Journal of Primatology 40: 297–299.
De la Torre S, Tirira D, Alfonso-Cortes F, Álvarez-Solas S, Carrillo-Bilbao G, Cervera L, Fuentes N, Martin-Solano S, Morelos-Juárez C, Solórzano MF, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB (2019). Primates de Ecuador, Guía de Identificación de Bolsillo. Tropical Pocket Guide Series, Global Wildlife Conservation, Austin, TX.
Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Byler D, Wich S, Humle T, Johnson C, Mynott H, McCabe G (eds.) (2019). Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2018–2020. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Global Wildlife Conservation, and Bristol Zoological Society, Washington, DC. 129pp.
Buss G, Oklander LI, Bicca-Marques JC, Hirano ZL, Chaves OM, Mendes SL, Neves LG, Melo FR, Rylands AB, Jerusalinsky L (2019). Brown howler monkey, Alouatta guariba Humboldt, 1812. In: Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Byler D, Wich S, Humle T, Johnson C, Mynott H, McCabe G (eds.) Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2018–2020. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Global Wildlife Conservation, and Bristol Zoological Society, Washington, DC. pp. 94–97.
Gordo M, Lagroteria D, Röhe F, Jerusalinsky L, Azevedo RB de, Vidal MD, Hrbek T, Farias IP, Rylands AB (2019). Pied tamarin, Saguinus bicolor (Spix, 1823). In: Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Byler D, Wich S, Humle T, Johnson C, Mynott H, McCabe G (eds.) Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2018–2020. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Global Wildlife Conservation, and Bristol Zoological Society, Washington, DC. pp. 82–85.
Gusmão AC, Messias MR de, Carneiro JC, Schneider H, Alencar TB de, Calouro AM, Dalponte JC, Mattos F de S, Ferrari SF, Buss G, Azevedo RB de, Santos Jr EM, Nash SD, Rylands AB, Barnett AA (2019). A new species of titi monkey, Plecturocebus Byrne et al., 2016 (Primates, Pitheciideae) from southwestern Amazonian, Brazil. Primate Conservation (33): 21–35.
Link A, Luna AG de, Bustamante N, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB (2018). Primates de Colombia, Guía de Identificación de Bolsillo. Tropical Pocket Guide Series, Global Wildlife Conservation, Austin, TX.
Estrada A, Garber PA, Mittermeier RA, Wich S, Gouveia S, Dobrovolski R, Nekaris KAI, Nijman V, Rylands AB, Maisels F, Williamson EA, Bicca-Marques JC, Fuentes A, Jerusalinsky L, Johnson S, Melo FR de, Oliveira L, Schwitzer C, Roos C, Cheyne S, Kierulff C, Raharivololona B, Talebi M, Ratsimbazafy J, Supriatna J, Boonratana R, Wedana M, Setiawan A (2018). Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation. PeerJ 6: e4869.
Holmes ND, Langrand O, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Brooks TM, Spatz D, Russell JC, Sechrest W, Méndez-Sánchez F (eds.) (2018). Islands / Islas. CEMEX, Mexico. 250pp.
Holmes ND, Langrand O, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Brooks TM, Spatz D, Russell JC, Sechrest W, Méndez-Sánchez F, Parr MJ, Simberloff D, Church D, Tershy B, Uribe C, Daltry JC (2018). Introduction. In: Holmes ND, Langrand O, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Brooks TM, Spatz D, Russell JC, Sechrest W, Méndez-Sánchez F (eds.) Islands / Islas. CEMEX, Mexico. pp. 1–45.
Pinto LP, Ravetta AL, Buss G, Rylands AB, Veiga LM (2018). Alouatta discolor (Spix, 1823). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (org.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 152–155.
Mourthé IM da C, Muniz CC, Rylands AB (2018). Ateles belzebuth (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1806). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ed.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 171–176.
Alves SL, Ravetta AL, Paim FP, Messias MR, Calouro AM, Rylands AB (2018). Ateles chamek (Humboldt, 1812). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ed.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 177–182.
Ravetta AL, Buss G, Rylands AB (2018). Ateles marginatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ed.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 182–185.
Ravetta AL, Valença-Montenegro MM, Rylands AB, Messias MR (2018). Lagothrix cana cana (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ed.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 196–199.
Mourthé IM da C, Muniz CC, Rylands AB (2018). Lagothrix lagothricha (Humboldt, 1812). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ed.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 199–203.
Ravetta AL, Muniz CC, Rylands AB (2018). Lagothrix poeppigii (Schinz, 1844). In: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ed.) Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Volume II, Mamíferos. ICMBio, Brasília. pp. 203–205.
Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB (2018). Prólogo. In: Tirira DG, de la Torre S, Zapata Rios G (eds.) Plan de Acción para la Conservación de los Primates de Ecuador. MAE/GEPE/AEM, Quito. pp. 5–6.
Sampaio R, Röhe F, Rylands AB (2018). Diversity of primates and other mammals of the middle Purus in the Brazilian Amazon. Mammalia 82(6): 565–579.
Rylands AB, Goodman SM, Louis EE Jr. (2018). Species' lists for lemurs in protected areas. In: Goodman SM, Raherilalao MJ, Wohlauser S (compilers) Les Aires Protegees Terrestres de Madagascar / The Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar. Association Vahatra, Antananarivo, Madagascar. 1716pp.
Boubli JP, da Silva MNF, Rylands AB, Nash SD, Bertuol F, Nunes M, Mittermeier RA, Byrne H, da Silva FE, Röhe F, Sampaio I, Schneider H, Farias IP, Hrbek TP (2018). How many pygmy marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1870) species are there? A taxonomic re-appraisal based on new molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120: 170–182.
Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Macfie EJ, Wallis J, Cotton A (2017). Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016–2018. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Conservation International, and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA. 107pp.
Neves LG, Jerusalinsky L, Melo FR, Rylands AB, Talebi M (2017). Northern Brown Howler Alouatta guariba guariba (Humboldt, 1812). In: Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Macfie EJ, Wallis J, Cotton A (eds.) Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016–2018. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Conservation International, and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA. pp. 96–99.
Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB (2017). Biodiversity hotspots. In: Lacher TE Jr. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Volume 3: Biodiversity. Elsevier Inc., New York. pp. 67–75.
Rylands AB, Mittermeier RA (2017). The IUCN Red List and primate conservation. In: Fuentes A (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. 3pp.
Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Sechrest W, Langhammer PF, Mittermeier JC, Parr MJ, Konstant WR, Mast RB (eds.) (2017). Back from the Brink / Desde el Umbral de la Extinción. CEMEX, S.A., Mexico. 275pp.
Langhammer P, Hoffmann M, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Sechrest W, Vié J-C, Rhodin AGJ, Mittermeier JC, Parr MJ, Konstant WR, Rodríguez JP, Stuart SN, Al Mubarak RK, Launay F, Mast RB, Maunder M, Church D, Contreras-MacBeath T, Molur S, Heard N, Gascon C (2017). Introduction. In: Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Sechrest W, Langhammer PF, Mittermeier JC, Parr MJ, Konstant WR, Mast RB (eds.) Back from the Brink / Desde el Umbral de la Extinción. CEMEX, S.A., Mexico. pp. 1–17.
Vargas A, Sanderson JG, Rylands AB (2017). Lynx pardinus Iberian Lynx / Lince Ibérico. In: Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Sechrest W, Langhammer PF, Mittermeier JC, Parr MJ, Konstant WR, Mast RB (eds.) Back from the Brink / Desde el Umbral de la Extinción. CEMEX, S.A., Mexico. pp. 151–155.
Martins WP, Lynch Alfaro J, Rylands AB (2017). Reduced range of the endangered crested capuchin monkey (Sapajus robustus) and a possible hybrid zone with S. nigritus. American Journal of Primatology.
Estrada A, Garber P, Rylands AB, Roos C, Fernandez-Duque E, Di Fiore A, Nekaris KAI, Nijman V, Heymann EW, Lambert JE, Rovero F, Barelli C, Setchell JM, Gillespie TR, Mittermeier RA, Arregoitia LV, de Guinea M, Gouveia S, Dobrovolski R, Shanee S, Shanee N, Boyle SA, Fuentes A, McKinnon K, Amato KR, Meyer A, Wich S, Sussman RW, Pan R, Kone I, Li B (2017). Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: why primates matter. Science Advances 3: e1600946.
Rylands AB, Heymann EW, Lynch Alfaro JW, Buckner J, Roos C, Matauschek C, Boubli J-P, Sampaio R, Mittermeier RA (2016). Taxonomic review of the New World tamarins (Callitrichidae, Primates). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 1003–1028.
Byrne HM, Rylands AB, Carneiro J, Lynch-Alfaro JW, Bertuol F, da Silva MNF, Messias M, Groves CP, Mittermeier RA, Farias I, Hrbek T, Schneider H, Sampaio I, Boubli JP (2016). Phylogenetic relationships of the New World titi monkeys (Callicebus): first appraisal of taxonomy based on molecular evidence. Frontiers in Zoology 13: 10.
Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB (2016). Introduction. In: Rowe N, Myers M (eds.) All The World's Primates. Pogonias Press, Charlestown, RI. pp. 1–2.
Buckner JC, Lynch Alfaro J, Rylands AB, Alfaro ME (2015). Biogeography of the marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82(B): 413–425.
Cortés-Ortiz L, Rylands AB, Mittermeier RA (2015). The taxonomy of howler monkeys: integrating old and new knowledge from morphological and genetic studies. In: Kowalewski MM, Garber PA, Cortés-Ortiz L, Urbani B, Youlatos D (eds.) Howler Monkeys: Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology. Springer, New York. pp. 55–84.
Sampaio R, Röhe F, Pinho G, Silva-Júnior JS, Farias IP, Rylands AB (2015). Re-description and assessment of the taxonomic status of Saguinus fuscicollis cruzlimai Hershkovitz, 1966 (Primates, Callitrichinae). Primates 56: 131–144.
Gascon C, Brooks T, Contreras-MacBeath T, Heard N, Konstant WR, Lamoreux J, Launay F, Maunder M, Mittermeier RA, Molur S, Khalifa Al Mubarak R, Parr MJ, Rhodin AGJ, Rylands AB, Soorae P, Sanderson JG, Vié J-C (2015). The importance and benefits of species. Current Biology 25: R431–R438.
Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Wallis J, Cotton A (2015). Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2014–2016. IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, and Conservation International, Arlington, VA. 93pp.
Aquino R, Cornejo F, Cortés Ortiz L, Encarnación F, Heymann EW, Marsh LK, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Vermeer J (2015). Monkeys of Peru. Tropical Pocket Guide Series, Conservation International, Arlington, VA.
Rylands AB, Mittermeier RA (2014). Primate taxonomy: species and conservation. Evolutionary Anthropology 23: 8–10.
Roos C, Boonratana R, Supriatna J, Fellowes JR, Groves CP, Nash SD, Rylands AB, Mittermeier RA (2014). An updated taxonomy and conservation status review of Asian primates. Asian Primate Journal 4(1): 2–38.
Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Taylor LA, Chiozza F, Williamson EA, Wallis J, Clark FE (eds.) (2014). Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2012–2014. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Conservation International, and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA. 88pp.
Mittermeier RA, Louis EE Jr., Langrand O, Schwitzer C, Gauthier C-A, Rylands AB, Rajaobelina S, Ratsimbazafy J, Rasoloarison R, Hawkins F, Roos C, Richardson M, Kappeler PM (2010). Lémuriens de Madagascar. Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, and Conservation International, Arlington, VA.
Kormos R, Kormos CF, Humle T, Lanjouw A, Rainer H, Victurine R, Mittermeier RA, Diallo MS, Rylands AB, Williamson EA (2014). Great apes and biodiversity offset projects in Africa: the case for national offset strategies. PLoS One 9(11): e111671.
Wormell D, Leus K, Stevenson M, Bairrão Ruivo E, Rylands AB (eds.) (2014). Regional Collection Plan for Callitrichidae. Edition 3 – 2014. EAZA Callitrichid Taxon Advisory Group, European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, Amsterdam. 162pp.
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