Enables 11-cis retinal binding activity. Predicted to be involved in visual perception. Predicted to be located in several cellular components, including cell body; centrosome; and nucleoplasm. Is expressed in several structures, including brain; eye; foregut; spinal cord ventricular layer; and viscerocranium. Used to study Bothnia retinal dystrophy. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Bothnia retinal dystrophy; Newfoundland cone-rod dystrophy; fundus albipunctatus; night blindness; and retinitis pigmentosa. Orthologous to human RLBP1 (retinaldehyde binding protein 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]