Predicted to enable sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase activity. Predicted to be involved in ceramide biosynthetic process and sphingomyelin catabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within ceramide metabolic process. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane and mitochondrial membrane. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Orthologous to human SMPD5 (sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 5 (pseudogene)). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]