Paralomis dawsoni

{{Short description|Species of king crab}}

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| taxon = Paralomis dawsoni

| authority = Macpherson, 2001{{Cite journal|last=Macpherson|first=Enrique|date=2001|title=New species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean|url=https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12131/12131.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Zoosystema|volume=23|issue=4|pages=797–805|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813041713/https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12131/12131.pdf|archive-date=13 August 2017|via=the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County}}

| status = NU

| status_system = NZTCS

| status_ref = {{cite report|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs40entire.pdf|last1=Funnell|first1=Greig|last2=Gordon|first2=Dennis|last3=Daniel|first3=Leduc|last4=Makan|first4=Troy|last5=Marshall|first5=Bruce A.|last6=Mills|first6=Sadie|last7=Michel|first7=Pascale|last8=Read|first8=Geoff|last9=Schnabel|first9=Kareen|last10=Tracey|first10=Di|last11=Wing|first11=Stephen|editor-last=Todd|editor-first=Amanda|display-authors=1|title=Conservation status of indigenous marine invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation|page=24|isbn=978-1-99-118365-1|date=January 2023|access-date=27 September 2024}}

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Paralomis dawsoni is a species of king crab which lives in New Caledonia, northern New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands at depths of {{cvt|400–1118|m|ft}}.{{Cite journal|last=Macpherson|first=Enrique|date=2003|title=Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the Solomon Islands (SW Pacific Ocean), with the description of a new species*|url=https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/2419/1/som.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Scientia Marina|volume=67|issue=4|pages=413–418|doi=10.3989/scimar.2003.67n4413 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722120230/https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/2419/1/som.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2018|access-date=21 May 2020|via=the Spanish National Research Council}} Alongside P. zealandica, it is one of the two most common species of Paralomis in New Zealand. {{As of|2023}}, the Department of Conservation in New Zealand classifies P. dawsoni as "Naturally Uncommon".