[2] Type species, Thozetella nivea is saprobic on submerged decaying wood in freshwater in Thailand.
[3] Species Thozetella pinicola was found on leaf litter of Pinus elliottii Engelm.
Hyde (2018) is found on members of the Pandanaceae family with other micro-fungi species in China and Thailand.
[5] The genus was circumscribed by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze in Revis.
The genus name of Thozetella is in honour of Anthelme Thozet (1826–1878), who was a French-Australian botanist and ethnographer.