Thozetella

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Sordariomycetes

| ordo = Chaetosphaeriales

| familia = Chaetosphaeriaceae

| genus = Thozetella

| genus_authority = Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 873 (1891)

| type_species = Thozetella nivea

| type_species_authority = (Berk.) Kuntze (1891)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

| synonyms = Thozetia {{Au|Berk. & F. Muell.}}, in Berkeley 1881

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Thozetella is a genus of fungi in the family Chaetosphaeriaceae.{{cite journal|author=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }} This has been confirmed with analyse of 3 genes (ribosomal DNA and protein coding genes: RNA polymerase II largest subunit (RBP2) and b-tubulin) and morphological comparison.

Type species, Thozetella nivea is saprobic on submerged decaying wood in freshwater in Thailand.{{cite web |last1=Chethana |first1=Thilini |title=Thozetella nivea - Facesoffungi number: FoF 10601 |url=https://www.facesoffungi.org/thozetella-nivea/ |website=Faces Of Fungi |access-date=18 November 2022 |date=24 May 2022}}

Species Thozetella pinicola was found on leaf litter of Pinus elliottii {{Au|Engelm.}} in Hong Kong.{{cite journal |last1=Jeewon |first1=R. |last2=Yeung |first2=S.Y.Q. |last3=Hyde |first3=K.D. |title=A novel phylogenetic group within Thozetella (Chaetosphaeriaceae): a new taxon based on morphology and DNA sequence analyses |journal=Can J Microbiol |date=June 2009 |volume=55 |issue=6 |pages=680–7 |doi=10.1139/wo8-148t}} Species Thozetella pandanicola {{Au|Tibpromma & K.D. Hyde (2018)}} is found on members of the Pandanaceae family with other micro-fungi species in China and Thailand. Species Thozetella aculeata was found on leaf litter in Brazil.{{cite journal |last1=Silva |first1=Priscila |last2=Grandi |first2=Rosely Ana Piccolo |title=A New Species of Thozetella (Anamorphic Fungi) from Brazil |journal=Cryptogamie, Mycologie |date=December 2011 |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=359–363 |doi=10.7872/crym.v32.iss4.2011.359}}

The genus was circumscribed by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze in Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) vol.2 on page 873 in 1891.

The genus name of Thozetella is in honour of Anthelme Thozet (1826–1878), who was a French-Australian botanist and ethnographer.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}