Predicted to enable 11-cis retinal binding activity and phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate binding activity. Predicted to be involved in visual perception. Located in cell body. 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]