Conformal models and fingerprints of pseudo-lemniscates

We prove that every function that is meromorphic on the closure of an analytic Jordan domain and sufficiently well-behaved on the boundary is conformally equivalent to a rational map whose degree is smallest possible. We also show that the minimality of the degree fails in general without the boundary assumptions. As an application, we generalize a theorem of Ebenfelt, Khavinson and Shapiro by characterizing fingerprints of polynomial pseudo-lemniscates.