thumb|Poromera fordii Poromera is a genus of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The genus Poromera is monotypic, containing the single species, Poromera fordii, commonly known as the West African striped lizard. The species is endemic to western Central Africa.
thumb|Poromera fordii Poromera is a genus of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The genus Poromera is monotypic, containing the single species, Poromera fordii, commonly known as the West African striped lizard. The species is endemic to western Central Africa.
==Etymology== Poromera is derived from the Greek words "póros" (πόρος) which means "pore" or "duct" and "mērós" (μηρός) which means "thigh". Poromera refers to the long series of femoral pores on the thighs of this species.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).