“…These microorganisms have been found in different marine and estuarine habitats including live algae, marine detritus, phytoplankton aggregates in invertebrates into the water column of the Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, Arabian Sea, coastal waters of Japan and India and also in coastal waters of Argentina and Chile ( Raghukumar, 2002 ; Raghukumar et al, 2000 , 2001 ; Naganuma et al, 1998 ; Bremer, 2000 ; Mo et al, 2002 ; Rosa et al, 2006 , 2011 ; Hinzpeter et al, 2009 ; Silva et al ., 2015 ; Pino , 2013 ; Shene et al, 2013 , 2018 ; Pino et al ., 2015 ; Gupta et al ., 2016 ; Caamaño et al, 2017 ). The TH can be isolated from various substrates and appear to be abundant in the sediments of coastal and estuarine environment ( Raghukumar & Raghukumar, 1999 ; Bongiorni, 1998 , 2012 ; Bongiorni et al, 2005 ; Singh et al, 2014 ; Caamaño et al, 2017 ).…”