“…In Colombia, microbial bioprospection has been mainly focused on terrestrial environments, whereas those organisms that inhabit marine environment have been little explored, and particularly the extremophiles found in fumaroles, hot springs, coastal salt lagoons and deep sea pits are of interest (Gómez et al, 2000). Recent reports have focused on bacteria isolated from marine sediments, to detect antimicrobial activity (Quintero et al, 2018), biofilm formation (López et al, 2019), biosurfactant production (Santos‐Acevedo et al, 2018), polyhydroxyalkanoate production (Blandón et al, 2020) and hydrocarbon degradation potential (Narváez‐Flórez et al, 2008).…”