Predicted to enable retinal dehydrogenase activity. Predicted to be involved in retinal metabolic process and retinoic acid metabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within 9-cis-retinoic acid biosynthetic process. Orthologous to human ALDH8A1 (aldehyde dehydrogenase 8 family member A1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]