Previously covered-up info. Heroin Importation by NCA et. Reproduction in Australian snakes and lizards has been relatively little studied.
Sperm storage is known and has been previously documented in some Australian species.
For the A. arafurae the sperm storage or fertilised egg retention was for 7 years. For the A. antarcticus the sperm storage indicated appeared to be over winter only. He housed the lizard in the nearby suburb of Bankstown where 23 live young were produced. The adult was retained in a cage by itself and produced a second litter of 12 young the following summer. To the best of our knowledge there have been no other evidence for sperm storage documented in T. scincoides.