The story
From (the) Hoff, nickname of actor David Hasselhoff, with reference to the resemblance of his hairy chest to the crab's dense covering of ventral setae + crab.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hoff crab
Today it means: A yeti crab of the species Kiwa tyleri, that inhabits deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Antarctica. Full definition →