Teeth of an Egyptian mongoose
Date 1849
Source Volume 2 of Sketches in Natural History: History of the Mammalia
Author Charles Knight
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animaldentition_herpestesichneumon.png

The Egyptian mongoose or the ichneumon (Herpestes ichneumon) is a species of mongoose. The Egyptian mongooses can be found in Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Palestine, and most of sub-Saharan Africa, except for central Democratic Republic of the Congo, western South Africa, and Namibia.