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- (which it was subsequently named after) in 1980 by two Germans microbiologists Karl Setter and Wolfram Zillig, in Solfatara volcano (Pisciarelli-Campania, Italy).

- and it’s also in aerobic and heterotropic categories for its metabolic system.

Habitat
S. solfataricus is an extreme termophile Archea, as the rest of the species of the genus Sulfolobus, it has optimal growth conditions in strong vulcanic activity areas , with hight temperature and very acid pH , these specific conditions are typical of vulcanic area as geyser or theraml springs, infact the most studied countries where microorganism were found are: U.S.A (Yellowstone National Park) , New Zeland , Island and Italy, notoriously famous for volcanic phenomena like these. A study conducted by a team of Indonesian scientists has shown the presence of a Sulfolobus community also in the West Java, confirming that high fears, low ph and sulfur presence are necessary conditions for the growth of these microbes.

Soil acidification
S. solfataricus is able to oxidizing sulfur in according to litotrophical metabolic strategy, one of the products of this reaction is H+ and, consequentially, it’s results in a slowly acidification of surrounding area. Soil acidification increase in place where there are emmissions of pollutants from industrial activity, and this process reduce the number of heterotrophic bacterial involved to decomposition, that are foundamental to recycling organic matter and ultimately to fertilizing soil.