| Spinellus | |
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| Spinellus fusiger growing on Mycena haematopus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Mucoromycota |
| Class: | Mucoromycetes |
| Order: | Mucorales |
| Family: | Phycomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Spinellus Tiegh. (1875) |
| Type species | |
| Spinellus fusiger (Link) Tiegh. (1875)
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Spinellus is a genus of fungi in the Phycomycetaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains three species of pin mold that are parasitic on agaric mushrooms.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Phillippe Edouard Leon van Tieghem in 1875.[2]