ideonella dechloratans ideonella dechloratans ideonella dechloratans is a chlorate-respiring bacterium from the genus ideonella and family comamonadaceae. ideonella dechloratans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: comamonadaceae genus: ideonella species: i. dechloratans binomial name ideonella dechloratansmalmqvist et al. 1994 type strain atcc 51718, ccug 30977, ccug 30898, cip 104251 synonyms anoxobacterium dechloraticum