Pontinus tentacularis is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes.

Pontinus tentacularis was first formally described in 1938 by the American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler with the type being collected in region of northern Mindanao in the Philippines.

[6] There are well developed spines on the head and there are elongated supraorbital tentacles.

The colour is brown with darker and lighter shading with 5 dark saddle marks along the back but these do not extend onto the dorsal fin.

It is a marine demersal fish which lives at depths between 170 and 600 m (560 and 1,970 ft).